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Contesting Visibility
- Photographic Practices on the East African Coast
Engelsk Paperback
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Contesting Visibility
- Photographic Practices on the East African Coast
Engelsk Paperback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
266
ISBN-13:
9783837624564
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
3837624560
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
26 jun 2013
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
150mm
Højde:
225mm
Forlag:
Transcript Verlag
Oplagsdato:
26 jun 2013
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