Photographers

Photographers

Author: Peter E. Palmquist

Publisher: Carl Mautz Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781887694186

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Photography and American Coloniality

Photography and American Coloniality

Author: Raoul J. Granqvist

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2017-04-01

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1628952881

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This book is the first to question both why and how the colonialist mythologies represented by the work of photographer Eliot Elisofon persist. It documents and discusses a heterogeneous practice of American coloniality of power as it explores Elisofon’s career as war photographer-correspondent and staff photographer for LIFE, filmmaker, author, artist, and collector of “primitive art” and sculpture. It focuses on three areas: Elisofon’s narcissism, voyeurism, and sexism; his involvement in the homogenizing of Western social orders and colonial legacies; and his enthused mission of “sending home” a mass of still-life photographs, annexed African artifacts, and assumed vintage knowledge. The book does not challenge his artistic merit or his fascinating personality; what it does question is his production and imagining of “difference.” As the text travels from World War II to colonialism, postcolonialism, and the Cold War, from Casablanca to Leopoldville (Kinshasa), it proves to be a necessarily strenuous and provocative trip.


The Amateur Photographer

The Amateur Photographer

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1915

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13:

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The popular illustrated journal for all photographers devoted to the interests of photography and kindred arts and sciences.