Other Lives of the Image
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11423675 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia Hayes (0000-0002-8937-4273, University of the Western Cape), Iona Gilburt (0000-0002-6141-451X) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 10-28 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Kronos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0259-0190 • E-ISSN: 2309-9585 |
| Publisher | Academy of Science of South Africa (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.17159/2309-9585/2020/v46a1 |
| OpenAlex | W3134203050 |
| SciELO | S0259-01902020000100002 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
In the wake of intensifying debates on decolonisation and restitution in Africa and its francophone diaspora, a Facebook posting of 6 February 2020 gave an other life to a photographic portrait of the French-Italian explorer Savorgnan de Brazza taken in 1882.1 The uploaded digital scan of a photograph from nearly 140 years ago flashed up in a moment of contemporary hypervisibility, offering a visual pretext to denounce de Brazza and the effect of his interventions in Africa virtually and openly on a public post, pulling the image out of the academic and archival environments it had until then mostly inhabited
Image (mathematics) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Photography and Visual Culture
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |