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 archives, the chapters in this book trace how photographs have been used both to affirm colonial worldviews and to disrupt and critique such forms of power. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Dynamics.

About the Author

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.

Book Information
ISBN 9780367023645
Author Kylie Thomas
Format Paperback
Page Count 390
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 750g