Intersecting Archives: Intertextuality and the Early West African Photographer - arthistoricum.net

Titel: Intersecting Archives: Intertextuality and the Early West African Photographer
Urheber: Charles Gore [ Autor/In ]
Enthalten in: African arts; 48(2015), 3, Seite 6-17
Erschienen: 2015
ISSN: 0001-9933
Sprache: Englisch
Schlagwörter: Photographers ; Photography ; Photographic equipment & supplies ; Art history
Inhalt: Gore examines practices of intertextuality in the dispersion of images by some selected early West African photographers who utilized dry plate technologies in the late 19th to early 20th century. There's a burgeoning literature on early African photographers but little attention has been devoted to their dialectical relations with each other or the modes of intertextuality that operated between photographers. Photography was at the center of the visual fabrication of localized West African modernities and imaginaries during the second half of the 19th century. The technology, initially patented and made publicly available in 1839 in France, was taken up in Africa from the 1840s onwards and offered innovative modes of representation
Medientyp: Artikel
Datenquelle: OLC Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft