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Photography in Africa is... (description)
historical photography of Africa [1]
"In this vortex of photographic activity in Africa, photographs were used to invent, define, classify and dominate as well as entertain, memorialize and subvert."[4]
Susan Sontag On Photography and Regarding the Pain of Others
"At the end of the book, she proposes that 'photographs with the most solemn or heart-rending subject matter' - Matthew Brady's dead soldiers from the Civil War, the walking cadavers at Buchenwald and Dachau photographed by Margaret Bourke-White and Lee Miller, perhaps also Nicholas Nixon's Aids victims - should not be exhibited in galleries or museums, where like 'all wall-hung or floor-supported art' they become incidental to a stroll, displayed as if they were plates on a sushi railway which we can sample or ignore as we please. The 'weight and seriousness' of images like these is more aptly honoured privately in sober silence, she believes, in a book."[5]
the German media critic Rainer Rother wrote "Riefenstahl viewed [the Nuba] as potential models and scanned the world before her eyes for spectacular images. Photography became someting intrusive, a form of hunting."[6]
review of Jennifer Bajorek Unfixed. by Drew Thompson (2021) Tools for Decolonizing Photography, Art Journal, 80:1, 130-132, DOI: 10.1080/00043249.2021.1872317
"In Unfixed Jennifer Bajorek traces the relationship between photography and decolonial political imagination in Francophone West Africa in the years immediately leading up to and following independence from French colonial rule in 1960. Focusing on images created by photographers based in Senegal and Benin, Bajorek draws on formal analyses of images and ethnographic fieldwork with photographers to show how photography not only reflected but also actively contributed to social and political change. The proliferation of photographic imagery--through studio portraiture, bureaucratic ID cards, political reportage and photojournalism, magazines, and more--provided the means for west Africans to express their experiences, shape public and political discourse, and reimagine their world. In delineating how west Africans' embrace of photography was associated with and helped spur the democratization of political participation and the development of labor and liberation movements, Bajorek tells a new history of photography in west Africa--one that theorizes photography's capacity for doing decolonial work"
2023 exhibition A World in Common at the Tate Modern in London.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ad fontes: Tutorium / Afrika im Fokus. Zur Verwendung historischer Fotografien in den Geschichtswissenschaften / Historische Fotografien aus Afrika". www.adfontes.uzh.ch. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
- ^ Frömming, U. U. (2013). [Review of Photography in Africa: ethnographic perspectives, by R. VOKES]. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 83(4), 697–700. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24525686
- ^ Auerbach, Jess (2014-01-02). "Photography in Africa: ethnographic perspectives". Social Dynamics. 40 (1). Informa UK Limited: 238–242. doi:10.1080/02533952.2014.896491. ISSN 0253-3952.
- ^ Gordon, Robert; Kurzwelly, Jonatan (2018-07-30), "Photographs as Sources in African History", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-250, ISBN 978-0-19-027773-4, retrieved 2024-12-19
- ^ Conrad, Peter (2003-08-03). "Observer review: Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
- ^ Rother, Rainer (2003-07-01). Leni Riefenstahl: The Seduction of Genius. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-4411-5901-4.
- ^ Tate Modern. "A World in Common". www.tate.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
Further reading
[edit]- Bajorek, Jennifer (2020). Unfixed : photography and decolonial imagination in West Africa. Durham. ISBN 978-1-4780-0458-5. OCLC 1089778328.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Meier, Prita (2019-01-02). "The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast". The Art Bulletin. 101 (1): 48–69. doi:10.1080/00043079.2018.1504549. ISSN 0004-3079.
- Killingray, David; Roberts, Andrew (1989-01). "An Outline History of Photography in Africa to ca. 1940". History in Africa. 16: 197–208. doi:10.2307/3171784. ISSN 0361-5413.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Rushohora, Nancy; Kurmann, Eliane (2018-03). "Look at Majimaji! A plea for historical photographs in Tanzania". African Studies. 77 (1): 87–104. doi:10.1080/00020184.2017.1395584.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Edwards, Elizabeth (1995). "Photography in Ethnographic Museums: A Reflection". Journal of Museum Ethnography (7): 131–139. ISSN 0954-7169.