Decolonizing Images
A New History of Photographic Cultures in Egypt
Seiten
2024
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6595-4 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6595-4 (ISBN)
Decolonizing images focuses on Egypt’s local visual heritage and continues the urgent process of decolonizing the canon of photography. It presents a new account of the visual cultures produced and exhibited in Egypt by interpreting the camera’s ability to conceal as much as it reveals in a complex vision of decolonial difference. -- .
The 2011 revolution put Egypt at the centre of discussions around radical transformations in global photographic cultures. But Egypt and photography share a longer, richer history rarely included in western accounts of the medium. Decolonizing images focuses on the country’s local visual heritage, continuing the urgent process of decolonizing the canon of photography. It presents a new account of the visual cultures produced and exhibited in Egypt by interpreting the camera’s ability to conceal as much as it reveals. The book moves from the initial encounters between local knowledge and western-led modernity to explore how the image intersects with the politics of representation, censorship, activism and aesthetics. It overturns Eurocentric understandings of the photograph through a compelling narrative of contemporary Egypt’s indigenous visual culture. -- .
The 2011 revolution put Egypt at the centre of discussions around radical transformations in global photographic cultures. But Egypt and photography share a longer, richer history rarely included in western accounts of the medium. Decolonizing images focuses on the country’s local visual heritage, continuing the urgent process of decolonizing the canon of photography. It presents a new account of the visual cultures produced and exhibited in Egypt by interpreting the camera’s ability to conceal as much as it reveals. The book moves from the initial encounters between local knowledge and western-led modernity to explore how the image intersects with the politics of representation, censorship, activism and aesthetics. It overturns Eurocentric understandings of the photograph through a compelling narrative of contemporary Egypt’s indigenous visual culture. -- .
Ronnie Close is an Associate Professor at the American University in Cairo -- .
Introduction: unruly photography
1 Rethinking the histories of photography
2 Decolonizing the lens
3 National images
4 Histories of the street
5 Censorship gazes on female portraiture
6 Contemporary lenses within Egypt
Conclusion: decolonial aesthetic futures
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.01.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 14 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 491 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-6595-3 / 1526165953 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-6595-4 / 9781526165954 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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