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Writing with Light - Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History Edited by Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 376. $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2394-3); $90.00, hardcover (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2393-6)

Paoletti, Giulia

Journal of African History, 2021, Vol.62 (3), p.430-431 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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    Writing with Light - Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History Edited by Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 376. $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2394-3); $90.00, hardcover (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2393-6)
  • Autor: Paoletti, Giulia
  • Assuntos: African history ; Ambivalence ; Colonialism ; Photography ; Plasticity ; Transparency ; Unconsciousness ; Visibility
  • É parte de: Journal of African History, 2021, Vol.62 (3), p.430-431
  • Descrição: Writing almost a decade ago, Christopher Pinney lamented that histories of photography at ‘the margin’ continued to remain footnotes to a Eurocentric master narrative and asked, ‘How do we account for the divided and apparently contradictory nature of photographic practices if it is indeed a photography (singular)?’1 In centering archives, images, histories, and writers from and in the African continent, Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History moves beyond this apparently insolvable impasse, as its contributors account for and embrace — rather than resolve or reduce — photography's plurality, incommensurability, and ‘endless plasticity’ (2, 17). Adapted from articulations by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and photographer Santu Mofokeng, it indicates the condition of two opposites’ simultaneous and irreconcilable coexistence — conscious and unconscious, transparency and opacity, light and non-light, resistance and repression. In what has often been a polarized and polarizing discursive space, through these authors’ interventions photography — and by extension, the continent itself — is finally not reduced to one thing, but can be ‘full and empty’, true and false, disclose the visible and the unseen (24, my emphasis).
  • Editor: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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