Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges

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Synopsis
This 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 and students of art history, visual studies and African history.
Copyright:
2021

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
328 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000182699
Related ISBNs:
9781350136557, 9781350136564, 9781003087410
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Darren Newbury, Lorena Rizzo and Kylie Thomas
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Darren Newbury
Edited by:
Lorena Rizzo
Edited by:
Kylie Thomas

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