Global Photographies: Memory - History - Archives

Sissy Helff · Stefanie Michels

Mar 2018 · Image Book 76 · transcript Verlag

About this ebook

How is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production of pictures, secondly, in the decoding of colonial and contemporary photography, and thirdly, in collecting photographs in picture archives dealing with colonial, anthropological and family photography. The contributions sketch the contested field of global photography and trace the manifold intertwinements between historical and contemporary photographs.

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About the author

Sissy Helff teaches at the Goethe-University Frankfurt/M. in the department of New English Literatures. Her most recent publications include her monograph "Unreliable Truths: Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women's Fiction of the Diaspora" (2012). She has been working as a journalist for development matters and cultural diplomacy and is one of the founding members of the cultural project "Migration & Media". Stefanie Michels is currently visiting professor for global history (focus on Africa) at the University of Hamburg. Her research focuses on German colonial history and the global history of photography.