Light on Darkness?: Missionary Photography of Africa in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 20.04.2012 - 286 Seiten In its earliest days, photography was seen as depicting its subjects with such objectivity as to be inherently free of ideological bias. Today we are rightly more skeptical -- at least most of the time. When it comes to photography from the past, we tend to set some of our skepticism aside. But should we? In Light on Darkness? T. Jack Thompson, a leading historian of African Christianity, revisits the body of photography generated by British missionaries to sub-Saharan Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and demonstrates that much more is going on in these images than meets the eye. This volume offers a careful reassessment of missionary photographers, their photographs, and their African and European audiences. Several dozen fascinating photographs from the period are included. |
Inhalt
The Beginnings of Photography | 18 |
Visual Representation | 56 |
Visual Representations | 98 |
Creating an Africa for Africans? Scottish Missions | 135 |
Missionaries and the Magic Lantern | 207 |
Radical Missionaries and Critical Theories | 239 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alice Harris appears artist atrocity photographs Bagamoyo became began beginning Britain British calotype camera Cape caption Casement chapter Charles Livingstone Christian Church of Scotland civilisation clearly Clendennen Congo atrocity Congo Balolo Mission Congo Reform Association context course daguerreotype David Livingstone detail E. D. Morel early Edinburgh Ellis Elmslie European example Found Livingstone Fraser Free Church graphs Guinness hand HIFL Ibid illustrations images interest John Harris John Kirk Journal Kalulu King Leopold’s Lake Malawi later Laws of Livingstonia least Leopold’s rule lithographs Livingstonia Mission London look Lovedale Madagascar magic lantern magic lantern slides Malawi meeting missionary photographs Missionary Society Morel Mzimba native Ngoni nineteenth century Nsala painting published punctum quoted religious River rubber seems seen Selim Sheppard sionary South Africa Stanley Stanley’s studies taken Thomas Baines tion tographs took twentieth century Ujiji visual Xhosa Zambezi expedition Zanzibar