Recaptioning Congo
African Stories and Colonial Pictures
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Lannoo Publishers
Published:13th Oct '22
£40.00
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Recaptioning Congo places the colonial Congo's photography history in new perspectives. Six writers and everyday Congolese urban voices take an African-centered look at imperial archival images and provide them with creative, contemporary and/or literary 'captions'. The book, linked to an exhibition in the photography museum FOMU Antwerp, isbased upon the extensive research of the photographic history of colonial Congo (1885 – 1960), conducted by Dr. Sandrine Colard. It contains a wealth of revealing images that highlight the relationship between past and present, Africa and Europe and Belgium and Congo.
Text in English, French and Dutch.
Recaptioning Congo is on the list of the New York Times 2022 Art Book: "…unfolds rare amateur photo magazines, 1930s studio portraiture, and missionary and ethnographic documentation, and also wrenching but important photos of colonial atrocities." - New York Times
- Short-listed for Photography Catalog of the Year category at the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards 2023 (France)
ISBN: 9789401486231
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 884g
272 pages