Contesting Visibility: Photographic Practices on the East African Coast (Image, Band 60) - Softcover

Heike Behrend

 
9783837624564: Contesting Visibility: Photographic Practices on the East African Coast (Image, Band 60)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3837624560 ISBN 13: 9783837624564
Verlag: Transcript, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Since the introduction of photography by commercial studio photographers and the colonial state in Kenya, this global medium has been intensely debated and contested among Muslims on the cosmopolitan East African coast. This book does not only explore the making, circulation, and consumption of popular photographs, but also the other side, their rejection and obliteration, an essential aspect of a medium's history that should not be neglected. It deals with various »social spaces of refusal« in the local Muslim milieu and in that of »traditional« spirit mediums in which (gendered) visibility was (and is) contested in various and creative ways. It focuses on the »aesthetics of withdrawal«: the various ways and techniques that process the photographic act as well as the photographic image to theatricalize the surface of the image in new ways by veiling, masking, and concealing. In a fragmented historical perspective, Heike Behrend seeks to complement, decenter, and counter the history of photography as it has been told by the West and to narrate another history beginning with preceding local media such as textiles and spirit possession.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Heike Behrend worked as a Professor of Social Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. She is retired now and lives in Berlin.

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Since the introduction of photography by commercial studio photographers and the colonial state in Kenya, this global medium has been intensely debated and contested among Muslims on the cosmopolitan East African coast. This book does not only explore the making, circulation, and consumption of popular photographs, but also the other side, their rejection and obliteration, an essential aspect of a medium's history that should not be neglected. It deals with various »social spaces of refusal« in the local Muslim milieu and in that of »traditional« spirit mediums in which (gendered) visibility was (and is) contested in various and creative ways. It focuses on the »aesthetics of withdrawal«: the various ways and techniques that process the photographic act as well as the photographic image to theatricalize the surface of the image in new ways by veiling, masking, and concealing. In a fragmented historical perspective, Heike Behrend seeks to complement, decenter, and counter the history of photography as it has been told by the West and to narrate another history beginning with preceding local media such as textiles and spirit possession.

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Verlag
Transcript
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3837624560
ISBN 13 
9783837624564
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
266
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