{"product_id":"ambivalent-photography-and-visibility-in-african-history-hardback-9780821423936","title":"Ambivalent; Photography and Visibility in African History (Hardback) 9780821423936","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAmbivalent\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePhotography and Visibility in African History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatricia Hayes (Edited by), Gary Minkley (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780821423936\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 November 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Ambivalent\u003c\/i\u003e develops a powerful and coherent set of arguments about the inherent ambiguities of photographs and photographic interpretations, in both colonial and post-colonial settings. These arguments are especially impressive in the ways in which they both draw on ‘classic’ photographic theory and engage with contemporary debates in the field of African visual studies, unsettling received wisdoms about African histories, governance, and ‘modern’ personhood.” - Richard Vokes, University of Western Australia “Scholars interested in further understanding the ways in which photography can be used as a historical source will be inspired and motivated by the diversity of approaches within this book. While this volume is not necessarily a handbook for beginning scholars, its significance, nonetheless, lies in its critical approach and in the new questions it raises regarding the theorization of visibility, photography, and African History.” (H\/Soz\/Kult)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoing 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eContributors:\u003c\/b\u003e George Emeka Agbo, Isabelle de Rezende, Jung Ran Forte, Ingrid Masondo, Phindi Mnyaka, Okechukwu Nwafor, Vilho Shigwedha, Napandulwe Shiweda, Drew Thompson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Africa and the Ambivalence of Seeing (patricia hayes and gary minkley)\u003cbr\u003e PART 1 UNFIXING RACE AND VISUALITY: THE COLONIAL TEMPORARY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1 Ambivalent Mediations: Photographic Desire, Anxiety, and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Central Africa (isabelle de rezende)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2 Empty Photographs: Ethnography and the Lacunae of African History (patricia hayes)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3 Unstable Forms\u003cbr\u003e Photography, Race, and the Identity Document in South Africa (ingrid masondo)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4 The Pass Photograph and the Intimate Photographic Event in South Africa (gary minkley)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5 Photographic Genres and Alternate Histories of Independence in Mozambique (drew thompson)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6 Photography, Mass Violence, and Survivors: The Cassinga Massacre of 1978 (vilho shigwedha)\u003cbr\u003e PART 2 OSCILLATIONS: SURFACES AND DEPTHS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7 Images of Ambivalence: Photography in the Making of Omhedi, Northern Namibia (napandulwe shiweda)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8 The Profane and the Prophetic at a South African Beach (phindi mnyaka)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9 Photographing Aso. Ebì Of Surfacism and Digitality (okechukwu nwafor)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10 Boko Haram Insurgency and a New Mode of War in Nigeria (george emeka agbo)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11 Mirrors and Waters: the Practice and the Visual in Beninese Mami Wata Cults (jung ran forte)\u003cbr\u003e An Expanded Milieu\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574554423576,"sku":"9780821423936","price":50.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ambivalent-photography-and-visibility-in-african-history-hardback-9780821423936","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}