Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger
questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical
analysis, Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on
the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about
questions of photography and visibility in Africa. The volume
presents African relationships with photography--and with
visibility more generally--in ways that engage and disrupt the easy
categories and genres that have characterized the field to date.
Contributors pose new questions concerning the instability of the
identity photograph in South Africa; ethnographic photographs as
potential history; humanitarian discourse from the perspective of
photographic survivors of atrocity photojournalism; the nuanced
passage from studio to screen in postcolonial digital portraiture;
and the burgeoning visual activism in West Africa. As the
contributors show, photography is itself a historical subject: it
involves arrangement, financing, posture, positioning, and other
kinds of work that are otherwise invisible. By moving us outside
the frame of the photograph itself, by refusing to accept the
photograph as the last word, this book makes photography an
engaging and important subject of historical investigation.
Ambivalent's contributors bring photography into conversation with
orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with
new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and
decolonial histories. Contributors: George Emeka Agbo, Isabelle de
Rezende, Jung Ran Forte, Ingrid Masondo, Phindi Mnyaka, Okechukwu
Nwafor, Vilho Shigwedha, Napandulwe Shiweda, Drew Thompson
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