1st Edition
Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa Shades of Empire
By Lorena Rizzo
Copyright 2020
304 Pages
61 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
302 Pages
61 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
302 Pages
61 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book studies the relationship between photography and history in colonial Southern Africa, using a series of encounters with Southern African photographic archives to reflect on photography as a distinct historical form. Through use of private and public archives, images produced by African itinerant photographers, white settlers, and colonial state institutions, this book explores... Read more
1. Assemblage. Photography and Colonial Policing in German South West Africa 1910-1913
2. Bodies and Things. Photography and the Person in Southern Africa, 1920s-1960s
3. Augenblick. The Moment in Namibian photography, 1930s to 1950s
4. Heterotopia. Aerial photography and mapping in the Eastern Cape, 1930s-1960s
5. Presence. The Breakwater prison albums, Cape Town 1890s to 1900s
Biography
Lorena Rizzo is a historian at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She has taught in universities in Switzerland, Germany, Namibia, South Africa and the USA, curated photographic exhibitions, and organised public history projects across Europe and Southern Africa.
