Picturing a Colonial Past
Author: Isaac Schapera
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007-06-30
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0226114120
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Author: Isaac Schapera
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007-06-30
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0226114120
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Author: Beth Fowkes Tobin
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780822323389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interdisciplinary study of visual representations of British colonial power in the eighteenth century.
Author: Eleanor M. Hight
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1136473874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColonialist Photography is an absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and European and American colonialism. The book is packed with well over a hundred captivating images, ranging from the first experiments with photography as a documentary medium up to the decolonization of many regions after World War II. Reinforcing a broad range of Western assumptions and prejudices, Eleanor M. Hight and Gary D. Sampson argue that such images often assisted in the construction of a colonial culture.
Author: Elizabeth Edwards
Publisher: Conran Octopus
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Pinney
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2013-06-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1780231520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wedding couple gazes resolutely at viewers from the wings of a butterfly; a portrait surrounded by rose petals commemorates a recently deceased boy. These quiet but moving images represent the changing role of photographic portraiture in India, a topic anthropologist Christopher Pinney explores in Camera Indica. Studying photographic practice in India, Pinney traces photography's various purposes and goals from colonial through postcolonial times. He identifies three key periods in Indian portraiture: the use of photography under British rule as a quantifiable instrument of measurement, the later role of portraiture in moral instruction, and the current visual popular culture and its effects on modes of picturing. Photographic culture thus becomes a mutable realm in which capturing likeness is only part of the project. Lavishly illustrated, Pinney's account of the change from depiction to invention uncovers fascinating links between these evocative images and the society and history from which they emerge.
Author: Susan Ossman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1994-12-14
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 0520084039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Picturing Casablanca, Susan Ossman probes the shape and texture of mass images in Casablanca, from posters, films, and videotapes to elections, staged political spectacles, and changing rituals. In a fluid style that blends ethnographic narrative, cultural reportage, and the author's firsthand experiences, Ossman sketches a radically new vision of Casablanca as a place where social practices, traditions, and structures of power are in flux. Ossman guides the reader through the labyrinthine byways of the city, where state bureaucracy and state power, the media and its portrayal of the outside world, and people's everyday lives are all on view. She demonstrates how images not only reflect but inform and alter daily experience. In the Arab League Park, teenagers use fashion and flirting to attract potential mates, defying traditional rules of conduct. Wedding ceremonies are transformed by the ubiquitous video camera, which becomes the event's most important spectator. Political leaders are molded by the state's adept manipulation of visual media. From Madonna videos and the TV's transformation of social time, to changing gender roles and new ways of producing and disseminating information, the Morocco that Ossman reveals is a telling commentary on the consequences of colonial planning, the influence of modern media, and the rituals of power and representation enacted by the state.
Author: Barbara J. Mitnick
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book accompanies the exhibition organized by Fraunces Tavern Museum, New York City.
Author: Paul Munro
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2020-02-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1789206251
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Empire forestry”—the broadly shared forest management practice that emerged in the West in the nineteenth century—may have originated in Europe, but it would eventually reshape the landscapes of colonies around the world. Melding the approaches of environmental history and political ecology, Colonial Seeds in African Soil unravels the complex ways this dynamic played out in twentieth-century colonial Sierra Leone. While giving careful attention to topics such as forest reservation and exploitation, the volume moves beyond conservation practices and discourses, attending to the overlapping social, economic, and political contexts that have shaped approaches to forest management over time.
Author: Martha G. Anderson
Publisher: African Expressive Cultures
Published: 2017-10-09
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780253028952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJ. A. Green (1873 1905) was one of the most prolific and accomplished indigenous photographers to be active in West Africa. This beautiful book celebrates Green s photographs and opens a new chapter in the early photographic history of Africa. Soon after photography reached the west coast of Africa in the 1840s, the technology and the resultant images were disseminated widely, appealing to African elites, European residents, and travelers to the region. Responding to the need for more photographs, expatriate and indigenous photographers began working along the coasts, particularly in major harbor towns. Green, whose identity remained hidden behind his English surname, maintained a photography business in Bonny along the Niger Delta. His work covered a wide range of themes including portraiture, scenes of daily and ritual life, commerce, and building. Martha G. Anderson, Lisa Aronson, and the contributors have uncovered 350 of Green s images in archives, publications, and even albums that celebrated colonial achievements. This landmark book unifies these dispersed images and presents a history of the photographer and the area in which he worked. "
Author: Paul S. Landau
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-10-28
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780520229495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. It assembles a wide-ranging collection of essays dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments cinema, cartoons, domestic and professional photography, body art, world fairs, and museum exhibits.