Light on darkness?: missionary photography of Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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 shou...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Grand Rapids, Mich. [u.a.]
Eerdmans
2012
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| In: | Year: 2012 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies in the history of Christian missions
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Africa
/ Mission
/ Photography
/ History 1800-1920
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Africa, Sub-Saharan
Church history 19th century
B Missions (Africa, Sub-Saharan) History 20th century B Missions (Africa, Sub-Saharan) History 19th century B Africa, Sub-Saharan Church history 20th century B Photography (Africa, Sub-Saharan) History 20th century B Photography (Africa, Sub-Saharan) History 19th century |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverz. S. 276 - 282 |
| ISBN: | 0802865240 |