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Record Nr.

UNINA9910743690203321

Titolo

Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975 / / edited by Filipa Lowndes Vicente, Afonso Dias Ramos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

3-031-27795-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (482 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color)

Collana

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, , 2635-1641

Altri autori (Persone)

VicenteFilipa Lowndes <1972->

RamosAfonso <1987->

Disciplina

770.96709034

Soggetti

Photography - Africa, Portuguese-speaking - History - 19th century

Photography - Africa, Portuguese-speaking - History - 20th century

Portugal Colonies Africa History 19th century

Portugal Colonies Africa History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Caught on Camera: An Introduction to Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa -- Part I Charting the Empire: Knowledge, Control, Power -- Part I Charting the Empire: Knowledge, Control, Power -- Chapter 2. Photographing Tropical Plants in the Late Nineteenth Century: Scientific Practices and Botanical Knowledge Production -- Chapter 3. Stopping for the Camera: Photographs of the Portuguese Expedition to Báruè, Mozambique, 1902 -- Chapter 4. Ethnographic Album of Angola: Overlaps Between Photography, Knowledge and Empire (1930s–1940s) -- Chapter 5. An Africanist Photo-ethno-graphy in the Portuguese New State (1928–1974) -- Chapter 6. To See Is to Know? Anthropological Differentiations on Portuguese Colonial Photography Through the Work of Mendes Correia -- Part II Showcasing the Empire: Propaganda, Media, Exhibitions -- Chapter 7. Visions of Wildlife and Hunting in the “Sportsmen’s Paradise”: Exploring Photography from the Mozambique Company’s Archive -- Chapter 8. Industrial Landscapes in Colonial Mozambique: Images from an Economic Magazine -- Chapter 9. To See, to Sell: The Role of the Photographic Image in Portuguese Colonial Exhibitions (1929–1940) -- Chapter 10. Images of Angola and Mozambique in the



Imperial Metropolis: Photographic Exhibitions Held at the Palácio Foz (1938–1960) -- Chapter 11. Vision and violence. Black women’s bodies on display (1900–1975) -- Part III Holding the Empire: Political Violence, Labour, Struggle -- Chapter 12.Images That Kill: Counterinsurgency and Photography in Angola Circa 1961 -- Chapter 13. Colonial War/Liberation Struggle in Guinea Bissau: From Personal Photographs to Public Silences -- Chapter 14. Curating the Past: Memory, History, and Private Photographs of the Portuguese Colonial Wars -- Chapter 15. Photographic Colonial Agency: The Work of Agostiniano de Oliveira at the Diamang (1948–1966) -- Chapter 16. ‘Our Nightly Bread’: Women and the City in Ricardo Rangel’s Photographs of Lourenço Marques, Mozambique (1950s–1960s)./.

Sommario/riassunto

This edited collection presents the first critical and historical overview of photography in Portuguese colonial Africa to an English-speaking audience. Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975 brings together sixteen scholars from interdisciplinary fields as varied as history, anthropology, art history, visual culture and museum studies, to consider some of the key aspects in the visual representation of the longest-lasting European colonial empire in the African continent. The chapters span over two centuries and cover five formerly colonial territories – Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe – deploying a range of methodologies to explore the multiple meanings and the contested uses of the photographic image across the realms of politics, science, culture and war. This book responds to a marked surge of international interest in the relationship between photography and colonialism, which has hitherto largely overlooked the Portuguese imperial context, by delivering the most recent scholarly findings to a broad readership.