Photography in and out of Africa

Part I 1. Introduction - Stereoscopic visions: reading colonial and contemporary African photography 2. Photographs from the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, South Africa, 1890-1907 3. Of bodies captured: the visual representation of the Paarl march and Poqo in apartheid South Africa 4. Post-abolition Angola in a post-colonial mission archive: a preliminary contextualisation of a photograph from the Spiritans' mission in Malange, northern Angola, 1904 5. Forward, Ever Forward: a reading of Robert Harris, Photographic Album of South African Scenery, Port Elizabeth, c.1880-1886 6. From salons to the native reserve: reformulating the ''native question'' through pictorial photography in 1950s South Africa 7. Mining photographs: David Goldblatt's On the Mines 8. One hundred years of suffering? ''Humanitarian crisis photography'' and self-representation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 9. Social documentary and personal investigations in contemporary South African photography: Tracey Derrick's ''One in Nine'' series 10. Re-covered: Wangechi Mutu, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and the postcolonial potentiality of black women in colonial(ist) photographs 11. An interview with George Hallett 12. ''I never didn't take a picture'': on photojournalism and conflict - an interview with Greg Marinovich Part II 13. Introduction - A density of texture: reading photography from South, North and West Africa 14. Fractured compounds: photographing post-apartheid compounds and hostels 15. Photographic portraits of migrants in South Africa: framed between identity photographs and (self-)presentation 16. Remembrance: the Essop brothers, formative realism and contemporary African photography 17. The politics of portrait photographs in southern Nigerian newspapers, 1945-1954 18. A lightness of vision: the poetics of Relation in Malian art photography 19. In search of African history: the re-appropriation of photographic archives by contemporary visual artists 20. From myth to history: Ethiopia and Eritrea's transformations in four photographic works 21. The aesthetic and practical fields of excrementality of L'boulevard festival 22. The aftermath of oppression: in search of resolution through family photographs of the forcibly removed of District Six, Cape Town