Decolonising the Camera

2019-07 Photography

Author : Mark Sealy
Release : 2019-07
Genre : Photography
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Book Rating : 755/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Decolonising the Camera written by Mark Sealy. This book was released on 2019-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Good Hope

2021-10 Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)

Author : Carla Liesching
Release : 2021-10
Genre : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
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Book Rating : 424/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Good Hope written by Carla Liesching. This book was released on 2021-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Good Hope', Carla Liesching constructs a fragmented visual and textual assemblage that orbits around the gardens and grounds at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa ? a historic location at the height of Empire, now an epicenter for anti-colonial resistance movements, and also the place of the artist?s birth. Named by the Portuguese in their ?Age of Discovery?, the Cape?s position at the mid-point along the ?Spice Route? was viewed with great optimism for its potential to open up a valuable maritime passageway. The ?refreshment station? later established there set into motion flows of capital from ?east? to ?west?. Good Hope brings together cumulative layers of documentary prose, personal essay, and found photographic material, along with sources ranging from apartheid-era trade journals, tourist pamphlets, and National Geographic and Life magazines, to contemporary newspapers and family albums. It offers both an intimate and critical examination of White supremacist settler-colonialism in the present, and a questioning of the ethics and politics involved in the very acts of looking, discovering, collecting, codifying, preserving, naming, knowing, and putting to language

These Wilds Beyond Our Fences

2017-11-14 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Bayo Akomolafe
Release : 2017-11-14
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 652/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book These Wilds Beyond Our Fences written by Bayo Akomolafe. This book was released on 2017-11-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackling some of the world’s most profound questions through the intimate lens of fatherhood, Bayo Akomolafe embarks on a journey of discovery as he maps the contours of the spaces between himself and his three-year-old daughter, Alethea. In a narrative that manages to be both intricate and unguarded, he discovers that something as commonplace as becoming a father is a cosmic event of unprecedented proportions. Using this realization as a touchstone, he is led to consider the strangeness of his own soul, contemplate the myths and rituals of modernity, ask questions about food and justice, ponder what it means to be human, evaluate what we can do about climate change, and wonder what our collective yearnings for a better world tell us about ourselves. These Wilds Beyond Our Fences is a passionate attempt to make sense of our disconnection in a world where it is easy to feel untethered and lost. It is a father’s search for meaning, for a place of belonging, and for reassurance that the world will embrace and support our children once we are gone.

Photography's Other Histories

2003-04-24 Art

Author : Christopher Pinney
Release : 2003-04-24
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 131/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Photography's Other Histories written by Christopher Pinney. This book was released on 2003-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated with over 100 images, this volume explores the role of photography in raising historical consciousness from a variety of geographic, cultural, and historical perspectives. 128 photos.

Photography

2022-01-25

Author : Mark Sealy
Release : 2022-01-25
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Book Rating : 335/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Photography written by Mark Sealy. This book was released on 2022-01-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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