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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476934703321

Titolo

Global Photographies : Memory - History - Archives / Sissy Helff, Stefanie Michels

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2018

ISBN

9783839430064

3839430062

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Image ; 76

Classificazione

AP 94200

Disciplina

940

Soggetti

History; Photography; Globalization; Memory; Archive; Colonialism; Postcolonialism; Cultural History; History of Colonialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Table of Contents    5 Preface    7 Re-framing Photography - Some Thoughts    9 African Photography in the Atlantic Visualscape    19 Elective Affinities?    39 How to use Colonial Photography in Sub-Saharan Africa for Educational and Academic Purposes    57 Presentness, Memory and History: Thabiso Sekgala, "Homeland"    69 On the Circulation of Colonial Pictures    89 Portraits of Distant Worlds    109 Reflexions on the Photographic Archive in the Humanities    133 Re-imagining the Family Album through Literary Adaptation    155 Public Rites/Private Memories    177 Contributors    205

Sommario/riassunto

How is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production of pictures, secondly, in the decoding of colonial and contemporary photography, and thirdly, in collecting photographs in picture archives dealing with colonial, anthropological and family photography. The contributions sketch the contested field of global photography and trace the manifold intertwinements between historical and contemporary photographs.

»Ein schmaler Band mit weit gespannten Ambitionen.« Claudia Moisel, www.sehepunkte.de, 19/9 (2019)  »Der Sammelband [...] bietet einen ausgezeichneten Überblick über aktuelle Forschungen zu historischen



Fotografien insbesondere aus und über Afrika.« Evelyn Runge, MEDIENwissenschaft, 2 (2019)  Besprochen in: Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Missionsgeschichte e.V., 69 (2020), Ulrich van der Heyden