Overview
- Considers critical moments in the visual representation of the longest-lasting European colonial empire
- Spans over two centuries and five formerly colonial territories
- Explores the meanings and contested uses of the photographic image in the realms of politics, science, culture and war
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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This edited collection presents the first critical and historical overview of photography in Portuguese colonial Africa to an English-speaking audience. Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975 brings together sixteen scholars from interdisciplinary fields as varied as history, anthropology, art history, visual culture and museum studies, to consider some of the key aspects in the visual representation of the longest-lasting European colonial empire in the African continent. The chapters span over two centuries and cover five formerly colonial territories – Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe – deploying a range of methodologies to explore the multiple meanings and the contested uses of the photographic image across the realms of politics, science, culture and war. This book responds to a marked surge of international interest in the relationship between photography and colonialism, which has hitherto largely overlooked the Portuguese imperial context, by delivering the most recent scholarly findings to a broad readership.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Charting the Empire: Knowledge, Control, Power
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Showcasing the Empire: Propaganda, Media, Exhibitions
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Holding the Empire: Political Violence, Labour, Struggle
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Filipa Lowndes Vicente is a Researcher and Deputy Director at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa). She was a Visiting Professor at Brown University (2016) and at King’s College, University of London (2015). Among her books are Other Orientalisms: India between Florence and Bombay 1860–1900, published in 2012, and, in 2014, the edited volume O Império da Visão. Fotografia no Contexto Colonial Português (1860–1960) [The Empire of Vision. Photography in the Portuguese Colonial Context (1860–1960)].
Afonso Dias Ramos is a Researcher at the Art History Institute, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST). He was a Visiting Scholar at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon (2020) and an Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin, affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin (2019). He is the co-editor, with Tom Snow, of the book Activism (2023).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975
Editors: Filipa Lowndes Vicente, Afonso Dias Ramos
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27795-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27794-8Published: 01 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27797-9Due: 02 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-27795-5Published: 31 August 2023
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 484
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, African History, Photography, European History, Cultural History