Recaptioning Congo
African Stories and Colonial Pictures
Published on 13. October 2022
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-94-014-8623-1 (ISBN)
Description
Recaptioning Congo places the colonial Congo's photography history in new perspectives. Six writers and everyday Congolese urban voices take an African-centered look at imperial archival images and provide them with creative, contemporary and/or literary 'captions'. The book, linked to an exhibition in the photography museum FOMU Antwerp, is based upon the extensive research of the photographic history of colonial Congo (1885 - 1960), conducted by Dr. Sandrine Colard. It contains a wealth of revealing images that highlight the relationship between past and present, Africa and Europe and Belgium and Congo.
Text in English, French and Dutch.
Text in English, French and Dutch.
Reviews / Votes
Recaptioning Congo is on the list of the New York Times 2022 Art Book: "...unfolds rare amateur photo magazines, 1930s studio portraiture, and missionary and ethnographic documentation, and also wrenching but important photos of colonial atrocities." - New York TimesMore details
Language
Dutch
English
French
Place of publication
Tielt
Belgium
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
250 Illustrations, black and white; 50 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 187 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
880 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-014-8623-1 (9789401486231)
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Persons
Dr. Sandrine Colard (ed.) is an independent curator, a researcher, and a professor of
art history at Rutgers University-Newark (New Jersey, USA). She is the recipient of multiple fellowships, such as the Ford Foundation, the musee du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, the Getty/ACLS fellowships, among others.
art history at Rutgers University-Newark (New Jersey, USA). She is the recipient of multiple fellowships, such as the Ford Foundation, the musee du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, the Getty/ACLS fellowships, among others.