Portraiture and photography in Africa

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Foreword \ Raoul BirnbaumAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Study of Photographic Portraiture in Africa \ John PefferPart 1. Exchange 1. Portrait Photography: A Visual Currency in the Atlantic Visualscape \ Jurg Schneider 2. Lutterodt Family Studios and the Changing Face of Early Portrait Photographs from the Gold Coast \ Erin Haney 3. Yoruba Studio Photographers in Francophone West Africa \ Erika Nimis 4. The Fieldworker and the Portrait: The Social Relations of Photography \ Elisabeth L. CameronPart 2. Social Lives 5. "A Photograph Steals the Soul": The History of an Idea \ Z. S. Strother 6. The Past in the Present: Photographic Portraiture and the Evocation of Multiple Histories in the Bamum Kingdom of Cameroon \ Christraud M. Geary 7. Mombasa on Display: Photography and the Formation of an Urban Public, from the 1940s Onward \ Isolde Brielmaier 8. Portrait Photography in a Postcolonial Age: How Beauty Tells the Truth \ Liam BuckleyPart 3. Traditions 9. Likeness or Not: Musings on Portraiture in Canonical African Art and Its Implications for African Portrait Photography \ Jean Borgatti10. ko -graphy: w Portraits \ Rowland Abdu n11. Visual Griots: Identity, Aesthetics, and the Social Roles of Portrait Photographers in Mali \ Candace M. Keller 12. The Intermediality of Portraiture in Northern Cote d'Ivoire \ Till FoersterContributorsIndex