Surface of Things

Name: Surface of Things
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A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast

Autor: Prita Meier

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Vazba: Pevná

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The first major history of photography from coastal East AfricaThe ports of the Swahili coast—Zanzib...

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Autor

Prita Meier

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2024

Stránek

240

EAN

9780691201870

Enbook ID

44614660

Vydavatel

Princeton University Press

Hmotnost

1148

Rozměry

191 x 254

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The first major history of photography from coastal East AfricaThe ports of the Swahili coast—Zanzibar and Mombasa among them—have long been dynamic centers of trade where diverse peoples, ideas, and materials converge. With the arrival of photography in the mid-nineteenth century, these predominantly Muslim coastal communities cultivated and transformed the medium. The Surface of Things examines the complex maritime dynamics that shaped the photography of coastal Africa, exploring the pleasure and power of beautiful things and the ways people and their pictures transcended the boundaries of the colonial world. Immersing readers in the globally interconnected networks of eastern Africa’s port cities, Prita Meier demonstrates how photographs are not static images but mobile objects with remarkable shape-shifting qualities. Beginning with the earliest photographs introduced through seaborne commerce, the medium’s integration into the cultural landscape was swift. Photographs functioned as objects of decoration, good taste, and cosmopolitanism, but were also used by local elites and foreigners to coerce and objectify enslaved people. Meier uncovers the oppressive agenda behind postcards and other popular images while describing African strategies of subversion and rebellion, revealing the performative authority that individuals exerted over their photographic likenesses. Featuring more than two hundred images published here for the first time, The Surface of Things repositions the continent’s islands and archipelagos at the center of global photographic histories and shows how the people of the African Indian Ocean world experienced photography as a force of both oppression and freedom.

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