Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Unruly photography -- Rethinking the histories of photography -- Decolonizing the lens -- National images -- Histories of the street -- Censorship gazes on female portraiture -- Contemporary lenses within Egypt -- Conclusion: Decolonial aesthetic futures -- References -- Index
Summary
Decolonizing images focuses on Egypt's local visual heritage and continues the urgent process of decolonizing the canon of photography. It presents a new account of the visual cultures produced and exhibited in Egypt by interpreting the camera's ability to conceal as much as it reveals in a complex vision of decolonial difference
