La revue sud-africaine Social Dynamics à l’heure de la photographie

La dernière livraison de la revue Social Dynamics. A journal of African studies (Volume 40, Issue 1, 2014), du Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, est en accès libre sur le site de son éditeur Taylor & Francis ! Voici le sommaire de cette “Special Issue: African Photographies: Iterations with Difference I” passionnante et dont est annoncée une seconde partie pour 2014 :

– Stereoscopic visions: reading colonial and contemporary African photography, par Kylie Thomas & Louise Green, pp. 1-11.

– Photographs from the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, South Africa, 1890–1907, par Rory du Plessis, pp. 12-42.

– Of bodies captured: the visual representation of the Paarl march and Poqo in apartheid South Africa, par Bianca van Laun, pp. 43-65.

– Post-abolition Angola in a post-colonial mission archive: a preliminary contextualisation of a photograph from the Spiritans’ mission in Malange, northern Angola, 1904, par Mădălina Florescu, pp. 66-84.

– Forward, Ever Forward: a reading of Robert Harris, Photographic Album of South African Scenery, Port Elizabeth, c.1880–1886, par Michael Godby, pp. 85-105.

– From salons to the native reserve: reformulating the “native question” through pictorial photography in 1950s South Africa, par Phindezwa Mnyaka, pp. 106-121.

– Mining photographs: David Goldblatt’s On the Mines, par Sally Gaule, pp. 122-139.

– One hundred years of suffering? “Humanitarian crisis photography” and self-representation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, par Aubrey Graham,pp. 140-163.

– Social documentary and personal investigations in contemporary South African photography: Tracey Derrick’s “One in Nine” series, par Meghan Kirkwood, pp. 164-180.

– Re-covered: Wangechi Mutu, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and the postcolonial potentiality of black women in colonial(ist) photographs, par Kanitra Fletcher, pp. 181-198.

– An interview with George Hallett, par John Edwin Mason, pp. 199-214.

Miscellany

– “I never didn’t take a picture”: on photojournalism and conflict – an interview with Greg Marinovich, par Paul Weinberg & Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk, pp. 215-224.

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