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Decolonising the Camera - Photography in Racial Time (Paperback)
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Decolonising the Camera - Photography in Racial Time (Paperback)
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This book examines how Western photographic practice has been used
as a tool for creating Eurocentric and violent visual regimes, and
demands that we recognise and disrupt the ingrained racist
ideologies that have tainted photography since its inception in
1839. Decolonising the Camera trains Mark Sealy's sharp critical
eye on the racial politics at work within photography, in the
context of heated discussions around race and representation, the
legacies of colonialism, and the importance of decolonising the
university. Sealy analyses a series of images within and against
the violent political reality of Western imperialism, and aims to
extract new meanings and develop new ways of seeing that bring the
Other into focus. The book demonstrates that if we do not recognise
the historical and political conjunctures of racial politics at
work within photography, and their effects on those that have been
culturally erased, made invisible or less than human by such
images, then we remain hemmed within established orthodoxies of
colonial thought concerning the racialised body, the subaltern and
the politics of human recognition. With detailed analyses of
photographs - included in an insert - by Alice Seeley Harris, Joy
Gregory, Rotimi Fani-Kayode and others, and spanning more than 100
years of photographic history, Decolonising the Camera contains
vital visual and written material for readers interested in
photography, race, human rights and the effects of colonial
violence.
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