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Recaptioning Congo
African Stories and Colonial Pictures
Contributions by Jean Bofane, Suzanne Freitas, Sinzo Aanza and Annie Lulu / Edited by Sandrine Colard
Published by Lannoo Publishers
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
Recaptioning Congo places the colonial Congo's photography history in new perspectives. Six writers and everyday Congolese urban voices take an African-centered look at imperial archival images and provide them with creative, contemporary and/or literary 'captions'. The book, linked to an exhibition in the photography museum FOMU Antwerp, is based upon the extensive research of the photographic history of colonial Congo (1885 – 1960), conducted by Dr. Sandrine Colard. It contains a wealth of revealing images that highlight the relationship between past and present, Africa and Europe and Belgium and Congo.
Text in English, French and Dutch.
Text in English, French and Dutch.
Product Details
- Publisher: Lannoo Publishers (October 13, 2022)
- Length: 272 pages
- ISBN13: 9789401486231
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Recaptioning Congo is on the list of the New York Times 2022 Art Book: "…unfolds rare amateur photo magazines, 1930s studio portraiture, and missionary and ethnographic documentation, and also wrenching but important photos of colonial atrocities."
– New York Times
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