Recaptioning Congo

African Stories and Colonial Pictures

Published by Lannoo Publishers
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
LIST PRICE $55.00

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.

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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