An Amazing Distance
Pictures and People in Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23245752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul S Landau (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Pages | 1-27 |
| Publication date | 2002-10-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Images and empires (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/california/9780520229488.003.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2504723149 |
| ISBN | 9780520229488 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about figurative images of Africa and visual mimesis of Africans. The chapters examine visual images as they were deployed in their contexts of apprehension and compares African iconographies and readings with European ones. The chapters analyze colonist and folk arts, including advertising, street cartooning, and photography. They demonstrate that images change depending on who is looking at them and show that how images have both underwritten and undermined the hierarchies that governed colonial Africa.
Apprehension · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Linguistics · Literal and figurative language · The arts · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Psychology
Coinage between cultures
The Colonial Space of Knowledge
Materialising Hygiene
Using photography in history of science and technology
Politics and Aesthetics in Francophone African film
La exhibición del otro
Our Lady of Congo
Facing hunger, framing food banks, imaging austerity
The Biography of a Visual Archive
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2024 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |