Women and Photography in Africa : Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges Paperback / softback
Edited by Darren Newbury, Lorena (University of Basel) Rizzo, Kylie (University of the Free State, South Africa) Thomas
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This collection explores women’s multifaceted historical and contemporary involvement in photography in Africa.
The book offers new ways of thinking about the history of photography, exploring through case studies the complex and historically specific articulations of gender and photography on the continent, and attending to the challenge and potential of contemporary feminist and postcolonial engagements with the medium.
The volume is organised in thematic sections that present the lives and work of historically significant yet overlooked women photographers, as well as the work of acclaimed contemporary African women photographers such as Héla Ammar, Fatoumata Diabaté, Lebohang Kganye and Zanele Muholi.
The book offers critical reflections on the politics of gendered knowledge production and the production of racialised and gendered identities and alternative and subaltern subjectivities.
Several chapters illuminate how contemporary African women photographers, collectors and curators are engaging with colonial photographic archives to contest stereotypical forms of representation and produce powerful counter-histories.
Raising critical questions about race, gender and the history of photography, the collection provides a model for interdisciplinary feminist approaches for scholars and students of art history, visual studies and African history.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages, 101 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:27/10/2020
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- ISBN:9781350136564
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages, 101 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:27/10/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350136564