Aubrey P Graham
Biographic Data
| ID | 100563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aubrey P Graham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aubrey P |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hostile visual encounters
On 16 July 2013, Simone Schlindwein, a German journalist, used her mobile phone to photograph a conflict-related image in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that later contributed to local riots and to her hasty exit across the border. From the 'front', she uploaded the photograph to her Twitter account and caused a melee of virtual and on-the-ground controversy that at record speed came to involve the United Nations, members of the Congolese d…
Where Indeed Is the Theory in Visual Anthropology
This continues the discussion that was launched in 2014 in Visual Anthropology, 27(5): 436–456. NotesProfilmy: The actor takes into consideration the fact that he is in representation—whatever the forms are—in front of a camera and during the time of the shoot. The actor always has an intention, except if he is filmed without knowing it. Even in that case, if he agrees on his image during the editing, we could suggest that there would be a kind o…
One hundred years of suffering? "Humanitarian crisis photography" and self-representation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Humanitarian images streaming from the ongoing conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are not “new”. In fact, contemporary aid and journalistic images strikingly mimic photographs created a century earlier during the Congo Reform Association’s humanitarian attack on Leopold II’s actions in the Congo Free State. This article explores the consistency of these photographic forms and their surrounding text, showing how the ima…
Cars Are Killing Luanda
If the bicycle embodied the contradictory effects of twentieth-century colonialism in Africa, then surely the car serves a similar purpose with regard to the postcolonial moment on the continent today. The automobile's association with cosmopolitanism and modernity, urban living and elite values is evident in the expression of individual desires and in the tropes of mass advertising. Yet, its dependence on oil links it undeniably with the resourc…
One hundred years of suffering? "Humanitarian crisis photography" and self-representation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Humanitarian images streaming from the ongoing conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are not “new”. In fact, contemporary aid and journalistic images strikingly mimic photographs created a century earlier during the Congo Reform Association’s humanitarian attack on Leopold II’s actions in the Congo Free State. This article explores the consistency of these photographic forms and their surrounding text, showing how the ima…
Where Indeed Is the Theory in Visual Anthropology
This continues the discussion that was launched in 2014 in Visual Anthropology, 27(5): 436–456. NotesProfilmy: The actor takes into consideration the fact that he is in representation—whatever the forms are—in front of a camera and during the time of the shoot. The actor always has an intention, except if he is filmed without knowing it. Even in that case, if he agrees on his image during the editing, we could suggest that there would be a kind o…
Hostile visual encounters
On 16 July 2013, Simone Schlindwein, a German journalist, used her mobile phone to photograph a conflict-related image in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that later contributed to local riots and to her hasty exit across the border. From the 'front', she uploaded the photograph to her Twitter account and caused a melee of virtual and on-the-ground controversy that at record speed came to involve the United Nations, members of the Congolese d…
Cars Are Killing Luanda
If the bicycle embodied the contradictory effects of twentieth-century colonialism in Africa, then surely the car serves a similar purpose with regard to the postcolonial moment on the continent today. The automobile's association with cosmopolitanism and modernity, urban living and elite values is evident in the expression of individual desires and in the tropes of mass advertising. Yet, its dependence on oil links it undeniably with the resourc…
One hundred years of suffering? "Humanitarian crisis photography" and self-representation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Humanitarian images streaming from the ongoing conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are not “new”. In fact, contemporary aid and journalistic images strikingly mimic photographs created a century earlier during the Congo Reform Association’s humanitarian attack on Leopold II’s actions in the Congo Free State. This article explores the consistency of these photographic forms and their surrounding text, showing how the ima…
Where Indeed Is the Theory in Visual Anthropology
This continues the discussion that was launched in 2014 in Visual Anthropology, 27(5): 436–456. NotesProfilmy: The actor takes into consideration the fact that he is in representation—whatever the forms are—in front of a camera and during the time of the shoot. The actor always has an intention, except if he is filmed without knowing it. Even in that case, if he agrees on his image during the editing, we could suggest that there would be a kind o…
Hostile visual encounters
On 16 July 2013, Simone Schlindwein, a German journalist, used her mobile phone to photograph a conflict-related image in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that later contributed to local riots and to her hasty exit across the border. From the 'front', she uploaded the photograph to her Twitter account and caused a melee of virtual and on-the-ground controversy that at record speed came to involve the United Nations, members of the Congolese d…
Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Front (military (2 works) · Geography (2 works)