Recaptioning Congo is on the list of the New York Times 2022 Art Book: "…unfolds rare amateur photo magazines, 1930s studio portraiture, and missionary and ethnographic documentation, and also wrenching but important photos of colonial atrocities." - New York Times
Recaptioning Congo places the colonial Congo's photography history in new perspectives. Six writers and everyday Congolese urban voices take an African-centered look at imperial archival images and provide them with creative, contemporary and/or literary 'captions'. The book, linked to an exhibition in the photography museum FOMU Antwerp, is based upon the extensive research of the photographic history of colonial Congo (1885 – 1960), conducted by Dr. Sandrine Colard. It contains a wealth of revealing images that highlight the relationship between past and present, Africa and Europe and Belgium and Congo.
Text in English, French and Dutch.
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Recaptioning Congo offers a new perspective on Congo's colonial history through a nuanced re-examination of historical photographs, including insightful, contemporary 'captions'. Text in English, French and Dutch.
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Recaptioning Congo is on the list of the New York Times 2022 Art Book: "…unfolds rare amateur photo magazines, 1930s studio portraiture, and missionary and ethnographic documentation, and also wrenching but important photos of colonial atrocities." - New York Times
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9789401486231
Publisert
2022-10-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Lannoo Publishers
Vekt
884 gr
Høyde
245 mm
Bredde
185 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Flamsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
272
Redaktør
Biographical note
Dr. Sandrine Colard (ed.) is an independent curator, a researcher, and a professor of
art history at Rutgers University-Newark (New Jersey, USA). She is the recipient of multiple fellowships, such as the Ford Foundation, the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, the Getty/ACLS fellowships, among others.