Photography in Africa

Abstract

The compelling nature of the photograph-as work of art, as documentary record, and in its impact on life itself-makes this imagery and its attendant technology critical to the study and understanding of the arts in Africa. This journal itself has celebrated the vital role of photography, at least implicitly, by publishing thousands of black-andwhite and color pictures, and a few specific photographic studies. Americans, Europeans, and, increasingly, the peoples of Africa see so many photographs on a daily basis that it is often forgotten that this type of image making is barely more than a hundred years old. Indeed the advent of photography as a viable portable medium and the serious study of African culture are nearly parallel developments. For many of us today, cameras are mandatory accessory organs to our eyes and memories. And yet for many students of African art and life, both cameras and photographic images themselves have all too often been taken

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 4 citations exist upstream.