Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa is a rich and
in-depth study of the relationship between photography and colonial
history at the turn of the 20th century. Lorena Rizzo highlights
the ways in which photographic images cut across conventional
institutional boundaries and complicates rigid distinctions between
the private and the public, the political and the aesthetic, the
colonial and the vernacular, and the subject and the object.
Rizzo argues that rather than understanding photographs primarily
as a means of preserving and recreating the past in the present, we
can also value them for how they evoke at once the need for and the
limits of historical reconstruction.
The work is rich in detail. Readers will encounter photographs
that range from prison albums from late 19th century Cape Town;
police photographs from German Southwest Africa (Namibia) in the
early 20th century; studio portraits commissioned by African women
and men who applied for identity documents, travel permits and
passports in the 1920s and 1930s; South African dompas photographs
from the 1950s and 1960s; to African women collections assembled in
the locations of Windhoek and Usakos in central Namibia, and aerial
photography in the Eastern Cape in the mid-20th century.
It is an important contribution to the area of photography and
history. It will enhance further study into constructions of
whiteness and blackness and the different modes in which the
imperial project operated across borders.
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