WOMEN AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN AFRICA: CREATIVE PRACTICES AND FEMINIST CHALLENGES

CONTENTS 

i.         Preface

ii.         List of contributors

1.         New lines of sight: Perspectives on women and photography in Africa

                 Darren Newbury, Lorena Rizzo and Kylie Thomas

PART I: WRITING WOMEN INTO PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORIES

2.         A working woman’s eye: Anne Fischer and the South African photography of Weimar women in exile

                Jessica Williams

3.         Curating images, performing narratives: Women and photography in the Usakos old location

                Lorena Rizzo

 4.        Women photographers in Angola and Mozambique (1909-1950): A history of an absence

               Inês Vieira Gomes

PART II: PHOTOGRAPHIC DIALOGUES WITH THE PAST

5.         ‘Don’t touch’: Inheriting the Deo Gratias Photo Studio in Ghana – an interview with Kate Tamakloe-Vanderpuije

               Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann

6.         Photographic representations of Tunisian women from the late 1940s to the present: A transgenerationalpalimpsest

               Dora Carpenter-Latiri

7.         Some collaborative readings of personal and cultural photographs from Southern Africa in the 1980s

               Biddy Partridge

PART III: GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE

8.         ‘We own the night’: Youth and self-fashioning in Fatoumata Diabaté’s Sutigi

               Tina Barouti

9.         Photographs and memory making: Curating Kewpie: Daughter of District Six

               Tina Smith and JennyMarsden

10.       Beyond the frame: Zanele’s Muholi’s queer visual activism

               Tessa Lewin

PART IV: FEMINIST AND POSTCOLONIAL PRACTICES

 11.       Affective archives: Re-animating family photographs in the works of Lebohang Kganye and Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi

               Marietta Kesting

12.       Visual currencies: Performative photography in South African contemporary art

               Nomusa Makhubu

13.       Héla Ammar’s Tarz: An affective and imaginative memory upon dispossession

               Anna Rocca Bibliography Index