Title Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa : Shades of Empire

Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (303 pages) Series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa Ser Routledge studies in the modern history of Africa. Summary 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. Latenineteenth 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 dompas photographs from the 1950s and 1960s, and aerial photography from the Eastern Cape in the mid-twentieth century are examined to highlight the ways in which photographic images cut across conventional institutional boundaries and complicate rigid distinctions between the private and the public, the political and the aesthetic, the colonial and the vernacular, or the subject and the object. Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa argues that rather than understanding photographs as a means of preserving and recreating the past in the present, we can value them for how they evoke at once the need for and the limits of historical reconstruction. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of colonial history, photographic history, visual media, and African studies Notes Lorena Rizzo is a historian at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She has taught in universities in Switzerland, Germany, Namibia, South Africa and the USA, curated photographic exhibitions, and organised public history projects across Europe and Southern Africa Print version record Subject Photography -- Africa, Southern -- History -- 20th century Photography -- Africa, Southern -- History -- 19th century Historiography and photography -- Africa, Southern Colonies -- Africa -- History Photography -- Social aspects -- Africa, Southern HISTORY -- Africa -- General. HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General. HISTORY -- World. Colonies Historiography and photography Photography Photography -- Social aspects Africa Southern Africa Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780429800047 0429800045 9780429439452 0429439458 9780429800030 0429800037 9780429800023 0429800029

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