Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa

This book studies the relationship between photography and history in colonial Southern Africa, using a series of encounters with Southern African photographic archives to reflect on photography as a distinct historical form.

Autorentext

Lorena Rizzo is a historian at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She has taught in universities in Switzerland, Germany, Namibia, South Africa and the USA, curated photographic exhibitions, and organised public history projects across Europe and Southern Africa.

Inhalt

1 Assemblage: Photography and colonial policing in German South West Africa, 19101913. 2 Bodies and things: Photography and the person in South Africa, 1920s1960s. 3 Augenblick: The moment in Namibian photography, 1930s1950s. 4 Heterotopia: Aerial photography and mapping in the Eastern Cape, 1930s1960s. 5 Presence: The Breakwater prison albums, Cape Town, 1890s1900s.