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Encounters with photography : photographing people in Southern Africa, 1860-1999 / [conference convened by Michael Godby and Patricia Davison].

Contributor(s): Godby, Michael | Davison, Patricia | South African Museum
Language: English Publisher: Rondebosch : University of Cape Town, 2000.Description: [iv], 267p. ; 21 x 30cm.ISBN: 0799220043
Contents:
At the edges of apartheid memory / Rory Bester; Speaking without words : photography as agent in communication and self-representation / Jean Brundrit and Jo Ratcliffe; Whose identity do we see? : tourist industry photographs of southern African Khoisan / Barbara Buntman; Capturing the past / Joy Dladla; Photography and the performance of history / Elizabeth Edwards; Photographic encounters : Leni Riefenstahl in Africa / James C. Faris; Juxtaposing race : configuration of alterity in South African photography / Sally Gaule; Life histories of photographs : Constance Stuart Larrabee's images of South Africa (1936-1949) / Christraud Geary; 'Some little bit of effective representation' : photography and painting on the S. W. African expedition of James Chapman and Thomas Baines / Michael Godby; Pictorialism in South African photography / Kathy Grundlingh; Photography and the rise of anthropology : Henri-Alexandre Junod and the Thonga of Mozambique and South Africa / Patrick Harries; Blood in our eyes : Mandume's death (1917) in photographic context / Patricia Hayes; Rethinking representations, revisiting encounters : photographs of South Africa by Sir Benjamin Stone and Vanley Burke / Peter James; Picturing the soul : missionary encounters in late 19th century Vendaland and beyond / Alan Kirkaldy and Albert Wirz; The photography of Georg Klinghardt in Namaqualand and German South West Africa, 1896-1915 / Gerald Klinghardt; Photomontage and the 'new' surrealism in South Africa / Jennifer Law; After life : the paradox of the photographic portrait / James McArdle; Popular pictorial constructions of Kaoko in the 20th century : continuities and discontinuities / Giorgio Miescher and Lorena Rizzo; Photography with a difference? : Leon Levson's camera studies and photographic exhibitions of native life in South Africa, 1947-1950 / Gary Minkley and Ciraj Rassool; 'Interesting and Picturesque' : staging encounters for the British Association in South Africa, 1905 / Chris Morton; Censoring for the Zulu image / Robert Papini; Notes from the surface of the image / Chris Pinney; Vanishing cultures? : authority, authorizing and representation in South African photography / Sam Raditlhalo; Stereoscopic imagery in support of a colonial project, South West Africa c. 1905 / Neal Sobania; Family albums as autobiographical narrative / John A. Stotesbury; The picture of health - the photographed male body in the archives of Hugh McFarlane / Hentie van der Merwe and Lisa Allan; Current encounters : crisis, myth, curiosity and the search for the African aesthetic / Margaret Waller; The shadow and the background : Louis Fourie in S. W. Africa in the 1920s / Ann Wanless; Africa obscura : representation, identity and control - select photographs from colonial southern Africa / Chris Webster.
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Conference held in Cape Town at the South Africa Museum, from 14 to 17 July, 1999.

Includes bibliographies.

At the edges of apartheid memory / Rory Bester; Speaking without words : photography as agent in communication and self-representation / Jean Brundrit and Jo Ratcliffe; Whose identity do we see? : tourist industry photographs of southern African Khoisan / Barbara Buntman; Capturing the past / Joy Dladla; Photography and the performance of history / Elizabeth Edwards; Photographic encounters : Leni Riefenstahl in Africa / James C. Faris; Juxtaposing race : configuration of alterity in South African photography / Sally Gaule; Life histories of photographs : Constance Stuart Larrabee's images of South Africa (1936-1949) / Christraud Geary; 'Some little bit of effective representation' : photography and painting on the S. W. African expedition of James Chapman and Thomas Baines / Michael Godby; Pictorialism in South African photography / Kathy Grundlingh; Photography and the rise of anthropology : Henri-Alexandre Junod and the Thonga of Mozambique and South Africa / Patrick Harries; Blood in our eyes : Mandume's death (1917) in photographic context / Patricia Hayes; Rethinking representations, revisiting encounters : photographs of South Africa by Sir Benjamin Stone and Vanley Burke / Peter James; Picturing the soul : missionary encounters in late 19th century Vendaland and beyond / Alan Kirkaldy and Albert Wirz; The photography of Georg Klinghardt in Namaqualand and German South West Africa, 1896-1915 / Gerald Klinghardt; Photomontage and the 'new' surrealism in South Africa / Jennifer Law; After life : the paradox of the photographic portrait / James McArdle; Popular pictorial constructions of Kaoko in the 20th century : continuities and discontinuities / Giorgio Miescher and Lorena Rizzo; Photography with a difference? : Leon Levson's camera studies and photographic exhibitions of native life in South Africa, 1947-1950 / Gary Minkley and Ciraj Rassool; 'Interesting and Picturesque' : staging encounters for the British Association in South Africa, 1905 / Chris Morton; Censoring for the Zulu image / Robert Papini; Notes from the surface of the image / Chris Pinney; Vanishing cultures? : authority, authorizing and representation in South African photography / Sam Raditlhalo; Stereoscopic imagery in support of a colonial project, South West Africa c. 1905 / Neal Sobania; Family albums as autobiographical narrative / John A. Stotesbury; The picture of health - the photographed male body in the archives of Hugh McFarlane / Hentie van der Merwe and Lisa Allan; Current encounters : crisis, myth, curiosity and the search for the African aesthetic / Margaret Waller; The shadow and the background : Louis Fourie in S. W. Africa in the 1920s / Ann Wanless; Africa obscura : representation, identity and control - select photographs from colonial southern Africa / Chris Webster.

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