Global Photographies: Memory - History - ArchivesSissy Helff, Stefanie Michels How is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production of pictures, secondly, in the decoding of colonial and contemporary photography, and thirdly, in collecting photographs in picture archives dealing with colonial, anthropological and family photography. The contributions sketch the contested field of global photography and trace the manifold intertwinements between historical and contemporary photographs. |
Contents
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Elective Affinities? History and Photography | 39 |
How to use Colonial Photography in SubSaharan Africa for Educational and Academic Purposes The Case of Togo | 57 |
Thabiso Sekgala Homeland | 69 |
On the Circulation of Colonial Pictures Polyphony and Fragmentation | 89 |
Portraits of Distant Worlds Frobenius Pictorial Archive and its Legacy | 109 |
Reflexions on the Photographic Archive in the Humanities | 133 |
Reimagining the Family Album through Literary Adaptation | 155 |
Public RitesPrivate Memories Reconciling the Social and Individual in Wedding Photography | 177 |
Contributors | 205 |
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