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Ambivalent : Photography and Visibility in African History /

"Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility...

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Other Authors: Minkley, Gary (Editor), Hayes, Patricia (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Africa and the Ambivalence of seeing / Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley
  • Ambivalent Mediations: Photographic Desire, Anxiety, and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Changed Africa / Isabelle de Rezende
  • Empty Photographs: Ethnography and the Lacunae of African History / Patricia Hayes
  • Unstable Forms: Photography, Race, and the Identity Document in South Africa / Ingrid Masondo
  • The Pass Photograph and the Intimate Photographic Event in South Africa / Gary Minkley
  • Photographic Genres and Alternate Histories of Independence in Mozambique / Drew Thompson
  • Photography, Mass Violence, and Survivors: The Cassinga Massacre of 1978 / Vilho Shigwedha
  • Images of Ambivalence: Photography in the Making of Omhedi, Northern Namibia / Napandulwe Shiweda
  • The Profane and the Prophetic at a South African Beach / Phindi Mnyaka
  • Photographing Asọ Ebì: Of Surfacism and Digitality / Okechukwu Nwafor
  • Boko Haram Insurgency and a New Mode of War in Nigeria / Georgge Emekea Agbo
  • Mirrors and Waters: The Practice and the Visual in Beninese Mami Wata Cults / Jung Ran Forte
  • Coda / Patricia Hayes.