Lorena Rizzo, "Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa: Shades of Empire "
English | ISBN: 1138343013 | 2019 | 302 pages | EPUB | 16 MB
English | ISBN: 1138343013 | 2019 | 302 pages | EPUB | 16 MB
This book studies the relationship between photography and history in colonial Southern Africa, using a series of encounters with Southern African photographic archives to reflect on photography as a distinct historical form.
Through use of private and public archives, images produced by African itinerant photographers, white settlers, and colonial state institutions, this book explores the relationship between photography and history in colonial Southern Africa. Late nineteenth century Cape Colonial prison albums, police photographs from German Southwest Africa, African studio portraits, identity documents, travel permits and passports from the 1920s and 1930s, visual studies of whiteness and blackness authored by settler photographers, South African
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