Women and photography in Africa: creative practices and feminist challenges

"This vibrant 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 p...

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Weitere Verfasser: Newbury, Darren (HerausgeberIn), Rizzo, Lorena (HerausgeberIn), Thomas, Kylie (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2021
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Zusammenfassung:"This vibrant 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 of art history, visual studies and African history"--
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 28, 2020)
Beschreibung:1 Online Ressource (xiii, 295 Seiten) illustrations
ISBN:9781003087410
1003087418
9781000182699
100018269X
9781000185874
1000185877
DOI:10.4324/9781003087410

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