Afonso Dias Ramos
Biographic Data
| ID | 5193391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Afonso Dias Ramos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Afonso Dias |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramos |
| SIGNATURE | RAMOS A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arte Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5282-7067 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sobre la ultraviolencia. La fotografía como arma en las guerras de descolonización
This article analyses one of the most decisive, yet least known, moments in the ever-tightening nexus between the visual world and political violence in the contemporary era: the relationship between violent images and the decolonisation wars across Africa in the mid-20th century, and how this determined the conduct, interpretation, imagination and memory of all such historical events under the aegis of ultraviolence. Taking three different conte…
Images That Kill
Caught on Camera
Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975
Himanshu Prabha Ray
The Fugitive Image
As colonial visual culture now fully integrates the mainstream of historical research and artistic practice at a global level, one subset of imagery still remains woefully unaddressed: the atrocity photograph. This essay provides a brief historical contextualization of the role of photography in decolonization wars and the concurrent emergence of critical theorizing on violent images, and why it still remains exceedingly difficult to analyse grap…
Kongo Reframed
One of the most damning colonial paradoxes is that the earliest areas of Africa known to the West remain the most unknown to it six centuries on. Even as the former Kingdom of Kongo (loosely splintered today into Angola, Congo, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)) recently experienced the longest and deadliest wars post-1945, these lands still fall below political, media, and academic radars. Long posited in Western imagination as the blan…
Kongo Reframed
One of the most damning colonial paradoxes is that the earliest areas of Africa known to the West remain the most unknown to it six centuries on. Even as the former Kingdom of Kongo (loosely splintered today into Angola, Congo, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)) recently experienced the longest and deadliest wars post-1945, these lands still fall below political, media, and academic radars. Long posited in Western imagination as the blan…
The Fugitive Image
As colonial visual culture now fully integrates the mainstream of historical research and artistic practice at a global level, one subset of imagery still remains woefully unaddressed: the atrocity photograph. This essay provides a brief historical contextualization of the role of photography in decolonization wars and the concurrent emergence of critical theorizing on violent images, and why it still remains exceedingly difficult to analyse grap…
Himanshu Prabha Ray
Images That Kill
Caught on Camera
Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975
Sobre la ultraviolencia. La fotografía como arma en las guerras de descolonización
This article analyses one of the most decisive, yet least known, moments in the ever-tightening nexus between the visual world and political violence in the contemporary era: the relationship between violent images and the decolonisation wars across Africa in the mid-20th century, and how this determined the conduct, interpretation, imagination and memory of all such historical events under the aegis of ultraviolence. Taking three different conte…
History (6 works) · African history and culture studies (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Photography (4 works) · Portuguese (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works)