The colonising camera : photographs in the making of Namibian history /
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| Imprint: | Cape Town, South Africa : University of Cape Town Press ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1999. |
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| Description: | vii, 220 p. : ill. (some col.), 1 map ; 28 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3496625 |
Table of Contents:
- Map of Namibia
- Pt. I. Introduction. 1. Photography, history and memory / Patricia Hayes, Jeremy Silvester and Wolfram Hartmann. 2. 'This ideal conquest': photography and colonialism in Namibian history / Jeremy Silvester, Patricia Hayes and Wolfram Hartmann. 3. Photography in colonial discourse: the making of 'the other' in southern Africa, c. 1850-1950 / Brent Harris
- Pt. II. Exhibition: The colonising camera: photographs in the making of Namibian history, 1915-1950s
- Pt. III. Commentaries: from colonising camera to 'How we see each other'. 4. Backdrops and Bushmen: an expeditious comment / Robert J. Gordon. 5. Mirror images? Photographs of Herero commemorations in the 1920s and 1930s / Jan-Bart Gewald. 6. Funerary photographs: the funeral of a chief / Wolfram Hartmann. 7. Looking at the locations: the ambiguities of urban photography / Marion Wallace. 8. Your space or mine? The photography of the Police Zone / Jeremy Silvester. 9. Transpositions: the reinterpretation of colonial photographs of the Kwanyama king Mandume ya Ndemufayo in the art of John Ndevasia Muafangejo / Margo Timm. 10. Hunting with gun and camera: a commentary / Paul S. Landau. 11. Performing gender, staging colonialism: camping it up/acting it out in Ovamboland / Wolfram Hartmann. 12. Framing Kaokoland / Michael Bollig. 13. Northern exposures: the photography of C.H.L. Hahn, Native Commissioner of Ovamboland 1915-1946 / Patricia Hayes. 14. How we see each other: subjectivity, photography and ethnographic re/vision including Matida sida ra mugu: from an exhibition by rural Namibian photographers / Rick Rohde.
