Global Photographies: Memory - History - Archives

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2018

Global Photographies

Memory - History - Archives

Edited by: Sissy Helff and Stefanie Michels
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2017: Frontlist Collection

Volume 76 in the series Image

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839430064

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Sissy Helff teaches at the Goethe-University Frankfurt/M. in the department of New English Literatures. Her most recent publications include her monograph "Unreliable Truths: Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women's Fiction of the Diaspora" (2012). She has been working as a journalist for development matters and cultural diplomacy and is one of the founding members of the cultural project "Migration & Media".
Stefanie Michels teaches at the History Department of the University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

Reviews

»Der Sammelband [...] bietet einen ausgezeichneten Überblick über aktuelle Forschungen zu historischen Fotografien insbesondere aus und über Afrika.«
Evelyn Runge, MEDIENwissenschaft, 2 (2019)

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Preface Sissy Helff and Stefanie Michels Open Access Download PDF	7
Re-framing Photography – Some Thoughts Stefanie Michels Open Access Download PDF	9
African Photography in the Atlantic Visualscape Moving Photographers – Circulating Images Jürg Schneider Open Access Download PDF	19
Elective Affinities? History and Photography Jens Jäger Open Access Download PDF	39
How to use Colonial Photography in Sub-Saharan Africa for Educational and Academic Purposes The Case of Togo Kokou Azamede Open Access Download PDF	57
Presentness, Memory and History: Thabiso Sekgala, “Homeland” Marie-Hélène Gutberlet Open Access Download PDF	69
On the Circulation of Colonial Pictures Polyphony and Fragmentation Hans Peter Hahn Open Access Download PDF	89
Portraits of Distant Worlds Frobenius’ Pictorial Archive and its Legacy Richard Kuba Open Access Download PDF	109
Reflexions on the Photographic Archive in the Humanities Margrit Prussat Open Access Download PDF	133
Re-imagining the Family Album through Literary Adaptation Sally Waterman Open Access Download PDF	155
Public Rites/Private Memories Reconciling the Social and Individual in Wedding Photography Jens Ruchatz Open Access Download PDF	177
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	205

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 210
Keywords: Photography; Globalization; Memory; Archive; Colonialism; Postcolonialism; Cultural History; History of Colonialism

eBook

Published: March 27, 2018
ISBN: 9783839430064