The Resource Ambivalent : photography and visibility in African history, edited by Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley
Ambivalent : photography and visibility in African history, edited by Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley
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- Summary
- "Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa. The volume presents African relationships with photography-and with visibility more generally-in ways that engage and disrupt the easy categories and genres that have characterized the field to date. Authors pose new questions concerning the instability of the identity photograph in South Africa; ethnographic photographs as potential history; humanitarian discourse from the perspective of photographic survivors of atrocity photojournalism; the nuanced passage from studio to screen in postcolonial digital portraiture; and the burgeoning visual activism in West Africa. As the contributors show, photography is itself a historical subject: it involves arrangement, financing, posture, positioning, and other kinds of work that are otherwise invisible. By moving us outside the frame of the photograph itself, by refusing to accept the photograph as the last word, this book makes photography into an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Ambivalent's contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 351 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction. Africa and the Ambivalence of seeing / Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley
- Ambivalent Mediations: Photographic Desire, Anxiety, and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Changed Africa / Isabelle de Rezende
- Empty Photographs: Ethnography and the Lacunae of African History / Patricia Hayes
- Unstable Forms: Photography, Race, and the Identity Document in South Africa / Ingrid Masondo
- The Pass Photograph and the Intimate Photographic Event in South Africa / Gary Minkley
- Photographic Genres and Alternate Histories of Independence in Mozambique / Drew Thompson
- Photography, Mass Violence, and Survivors: The Cassinga Massacre of 1978 / Vilho Shigwedha
- Images of Ambivalence: Photography in the Making of Omhedi, Northern Namibia / Napandulwe Shiweda
- The Profane and the Prophetic at a South African Beach / Phindi Mnyaka
- Photographing Asọ Ebì: Of Surfacism and Digitality / Okechukwu Nwafor
- Boko Haram Insurgency and a New Mode of War in Nigeria / Georgge Emekea Agbo
- Mirrors and Waters: The Practice and the Visual in Beninese Mami Wata Cults / Jung Ran Forte
- Coda / Patricia Hayes
- Isbn
- 9780821423943
- Label
- Ambivalent : photography and visibility in African history
- Title
- Ambivalent
- Title remainder
- photography and visibility in African history
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa. The volume presents African relationships with photography-and with visibility more generally-in ways that engage and disrupt the easy categories and genres that have characterized the field to date. Authors pose new questions concerning the instability of the identity photograph in South Africa; ethnographic photographs as potential history; humanitarian discourse from the perspective of photographic survivors of atrocity photojournalism; the nuanced passage from studio to screen in postcolonial digital portraiture; and the burgeoning visual activism in West Africa. As the contributors show, photography is itself a historical subject: it involves arrangement, financing, posture, positioning, and other kinds of work that are otherwise invisible. By moving us outside the frame of the photograph itself, by refusing to accept the photograph as the last word, this book makes photography into an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Ambivalent's contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Dewey number
- 302.226
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Hayes, Patricia
- Minkley, Gary
- Series statement
- New African histories
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- Visual sociology
- Photography
- Africa
- Label
- Ambivalent : photography and visibility in African history, edited by Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- text
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- Contents
- Introduction. Africa and the Ambivalence of seeing / Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley -- Ambivalent Mediations: Photographic Desire, Anxiety, and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Changed Africa / Isabelle de Rezende -- Empty Photographs: Ethnography and the Lacunae of African History / Patricia Hayes -- Unstable Forms: Photography, Race, and the Identity Document in South Africa / Ingrid Masondo -- The Pass Photograph and the Intimate Photographic Event in South Africa / Gary Minkley -- Photographic Genres and Alternate Histories of Independence in Mozambique / Drew Thompson -- Photography, Mass Violence, and Survivors: The Cassinga Massacre of 1978 / Vilho Shigwedha -- Images of Ambivalence: Photography in the Making of Omhedi, Northern Namibia / Napandulwe Shiweda -- The Profane and the Prophetic at a South African Beach / Phindi Mnyaka -- Photographing Asọ Ebì: Of Surfacism and Digitality / Okechukwu Nwafor -- Boko Haram Insurgency and a New Mode of War in Nigeria / Georgge Emekea Agbo -- Mirrors and Waters: The Practice and the Visual in Beninese Mami Wata Cults / Jung Ran Forte -- Coda / Patricia Hayes
- Control code
- on1110658060
- Dimensions
- 27 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 351 pages
- Isbn
- 9780821423943
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1110658060
- Label
- Ambivalent : photography and visibility in African history, edited by Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction. Africa and the Ambivalence of seeing / Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley -- Ambivalent Mediations: Photographic Desire, Anxiety, and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Changed Africa / Isabelle de Rezende -- Empty Photographs: Ethnography and the Lacunae of African History / Patricia Hayes -- Unstable Forms: Photography, Race, and the Identity Document in South Africa / Ingrid Masondo -- The Pass Photograph and the Intimate Photographic Event in South Africa / Gary Minkley -- Photographic Genres and Alternate Histories of Independence in Mozambique / Drew Thompson -- Photography, Mass Violence, and Survivors: The Cassinga Massacre of 1978 / Vilho Shigwedha -- Images of Ambivalence: Photography in the Making of Omhedi, Northern Namibia / Napandulwe Shiweda -- The Profane and the Prophetic at a South African Beach / Phindi Mnyaka -- Photographing Asọ Ebì: Of Surfacism and Digitality / Okechukwu Nwafor -- Boko Haram Insurgency and a New Mode of War in Nigeria / Georgge Emekea Agbo -- Mirrors and Waters: The Practice and the Visual in Beninese Mami Wata Cults / Jung Ran Forte -- Coda / Patricia Hayes
- Control code
- on1110658060
- Dimensions
- 27 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 351 pages
- Isbn
- 9780821423943
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1110658060
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