Kronos: Southern African Histories 46
The CHR is excited to announce the publication of Other Lives of the Image, a special issue of the journal Kronos: Southern African Histories.
The issue is guest edited by DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory Patricia Hayes and 2020 DST/NRF SARChI Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual History & Theory Iona Gilburt. Other Lives of the Image also features contributions by CHR Fellows Rui Assubuji and Samuel Longford. This special issue takes up the proposition that images have “Other Lives,” which are plural, distinct, multitemporal, and travel across media, manifesting in literature, cinema, sculpture, visual art, and media installations, among numerous other iterations. This volume arises from an international workshop held at the Centre for Humanities Research at UWC in October 2019.
Contents
Other Lives of the Image
Patricia Hayes and Iona Gilburt
PART 1: Latencies
In and Out of Sight: The Afterlife of Official Photography from Idi Amin’s Uganda
Richard Vokes
Attempted Portraits: Photography, Obscurity, and the Articulation of the Past
Christopher Morton
How Do We Look?
John Peffer
The Brown Photo Album: An Archive of Feminist Futurity
Jordache A. Ellapen
The Phototextual Emergence of Hysteria: From the Iconographie Photographique de la Salpêtrière to J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man
Iona Gilburt
PART 2: Reworkings
From Illustration to Evidence: Centring Historical Photographs in Native Land Claims
A Conversation with Michael Aird
Atlas of an Empire: Photographic Narrations and the Visual Struggle for Mozambique
Rui Assubuji
The Decolonising Camera: Street Photography and the Bandung Myth
Christopher J. Lee
Theorising the Image as Act: Reading the Social and Political in Images of the Rural Eastern Cape
Candice Steele
An Openness to Experiment: Ruy Duarte de Carvalho’s Anthropological Field Photography in Rural Southern Angola and its Archival Reusages
Inês Ponte
Of Sky, Water and Skin: Photographs from a Zanzibari Darkroom
Pamila Gupta
REVIEW ARTICLE
Putting Gestures to Work: Georges Didi-Huberman, Uprisings
Samuel Longford
PART 3: BOOK REVIEWS
School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference
Rory du Plessis
Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism
Bianca van Laun
Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History
Ross Truscott
