Neils Walwin Holm
Radicalising the Image in Lagos Colony, West Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9380299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Gore (0000-0002-4315-9113, SOAS University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 283-300 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Photography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-7298 • E-ISSN: 2150-7295 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03087298.2012.758414 |
| OpenAlex | W1999801516 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This essay traces the professional trajectory of N. W. Holm, the pre-eminent photographer of Lagos, West Africa, from the 1890s until 1910. He then trained as a barrister in London and established law chambers in Lagos in 1918, despite having extolled the virtues of photography as a profession. This was at a time of increasing exclusion and discrimination of Africans by colonial administrations in West Africa. Holm had been present at the first Pan-African conference, held in London in 1900, and was appointed as secretary to represent Lagos Colony for the first Pan-African Association that was a product of it. Around 1903/04 he instituted a commercial postcard archive that documented a trajectory of Lagosian modernity and cosmopolitanism that both had preceded and sought to undermine the colonial ideologies of scientific racism and primitivism to which the colonial government and a new influx of Europeans subscribed
Art · Geography · Visual arts · African history and culture studies
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |