Kylie (Hrsg.) Thomas

Photography in and out of Africa

Iterations with Difference

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This book offers a range of perspectives on photography in Africa, bringing research on South African photography into conversation with work from several other places on the continent, including Angola, the DRC, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. The collection engages with the history of photography and its role in colonial regulatory regimes; with social documentary photography and practices of self-representation; and with the place of portraits in the production of subjectivities, as well as contemporary and experimental photographic practices. Through detailed analyses of particular photographs and photographic archiv… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Green, Louise (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-317-35824-4
EAN: 9781317358244
Produktnummer: 27163369
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 340 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 15'652 KB

Über den Autor

Kylie Thomas is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice, University of the Free State, South Africa. She writes about photography, violence, and South Africa during and after apartheid. She has held research fellowships at Stellenbosch University, the University of Cape Town, and the University of the Western Cape, and has taught in the Department of Fine Art at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. She is the author of Impossible Mourning: HIV/AIDS and Visuality After Apartheid (2013). Louise Green is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa. Her research draws on the critical insights of Theodor Adorno to investigate the place of nature in contemporary global culture. She works in the area of critical theory and visual studies, tracing the elusive, mobile and diverse formations of value in late capitalist society.