Title & Author:

The colonising camera : photographs in the making of Namibian history / edited by Wolfram Hartmann, Jeremy Silvester, Patricia Hayes.

Publication:

Cape Town, South Africa : University of Cape Town Press ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1999.

Description:

vii, 220 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-216) and index.
Map of Namibia -- pt. I. Introduction -- 1. Photography, history and memory / Patricia Hayes, Jeremy Silvester and Wolfram Hartmann -- 2. 'This ideal conquest': photography and colonialism in Namibian history / Jeremy Silvester, Patricia Hayes and Wolfram Hartmann -- 3. Photography in colonial discourse: the making of 'the other' in southern Africa, c. 1850-1950 / Brent Harris -- pt. II. Exhibition: The colonising camera: photographs in the making of Namibian history, 1915-1950s -- pt. III. Commentaries: from colonising camera to 'How we see each other' -- 4. Backdrops and Bushmen: an expeditious comment / Robert J. Gordon -- 5. Mirror images? Photographs of Herero commemorations in the 1920s and 1930s / Jan-Bart Gewald -- 6. Funerary photographs: the funeral of a chief / Wolfram Hartmann -- 7. Looking at the locations: the ambiguities of urban photography / Marion Wallace -- 8. Your space or mine? The photography of the Police Zone / Jeremy Silvester -- 9. Transpositions: the reinterpretation of colonial photographs of the Kwanyama king Mandume ya Ndemufayo in the art of John Ndevasia Muafangejo / Margo Timm -- 10. Hunting with gun and camera: a commentary / Paul S. Landau -- 11. Performing gender, staging colonialism: camping it up/acting it out in Ovamboland / Wolfram Hartmann -- 12. Framing Kaokoland / Michael Bollig -- 13. Northern exposures: the photography of C.H.L. Hahn, Native Commissioner of Ovamboland 1915-1946 / Patricia Hayes -- 14. How we see each other: subjectivity, photography and ethnographic re/vision including Matida sida ra mugu: from an exhibition by rural Namibian photographers / Rick Rohde.

Summary:

"The core of the book is an exhibition of colonial photographs from Namibia, dating from the onset of South African colonial rule. The exhibition is accompanied by commentaries which explore the intertwined themes of photography and colonialism."--BOOK JACKET. "The book offers new ways of thinking about Africa's incorporation into the wider world through the production and circulation of images. Photographs were powerful cultural commodities in Namibia, whether used by Germans, South Africans, Americans, or Africans themselves."--Jacket.

ISBN:

1919713220 (University of Cape Town Press)
9781919713229 (University of Cape Town Press)
9991621407 (Out of Africa)
9789991621401 (Out of Africa)
0821412612 (Ohio University Press)
9780821412619 (Ohio University Press)

Subject:

Documentary photography Political aspects Namibia History 20th century.
Photographie documentaire Aspect politique Namibie Histoire 20e siècle.
Politics and government
Bildband
Fotografie
Namibia History 20th century Pictorial works.
Namibia Politics and government 1915-1946.
Namibia Politics and government 1946-1990.
Namibie Histoire 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Namibie Politique et gouvernement 1915-1946.
Namibie Politique et gouvernement 1946-1990.
Namibia

Form/genre:

History
Illustrated works
Bildband.

Added entries:

Hartmann, Wolfram.
Silvester, Jeremy.
Hayes, Patricia.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226029
Call No.: TR119.S68 C6 1999
Status: Available