Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860-1975

This edited collection presents the first critical and historical overview of photography in Portuguese colonial Africa to an English-speaking audience. Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860-1975 brings together sixteen scholars from interdisciplinary fields as varied as history, anthropology, art history, visual culture and museum studies, to consider some of the key aspects in the visual representation of the longest-lasting European colonial empire in the African continent. The chapters span over two centuries and cover five formerly colonial territories - Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe - deploying a range of methodologies to explore the multiple meanings and the contested uses of the photographic image across the realms of politics, science, culture and war. This book responds to a marked surge of international interest in the relationship between photography and colonialism, which has hitherto largely overlooked the Portuguese imperial context, by delivering the most recent scholarly findings to a broad readership.

Chapter 1. Caught on Camera: An Introduction to Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa. - Part I Charting the Empire: Knowledge, Control, Power. - Part I Charting the Empire: Knowledge, Control, Power. - Chapter 2. Photographing Tropical Plants in the Late Nineteenth Century: Scientific Practices and Botanical Knowledge Production. - Chapter 3. Stopping for the Camera: Photographs of the Portuguese Expedition to Báruè, Mozambique, 1902. - Chapter 4. Ethnographic Album of Angola: Overlaps Between Photography, Knowledge and Empire (1930s 1940s). - Chapter 5. An Africanist Photo-ethno-graphy in the Portuguese New State (1928 1974). - Chapter 6. To See Is to Know? Anthropological Differentiations on Portuguese Colonial Photography Through the Work of Mendes Correia. - Part II Showcasing the Empire: Propaganda, Media, Exhibitions. - Chapter 7. Visions of Wildlife and Hunting in the Sportsmen s Paradise : Exploring Photography from the Mozambique Company s Archive. - Chapter 8. IndustrialLandscapes in Colonial Mozambique: Images from an Economic Magazine. - Chapter 9. To See, to Sell: The Role of the Photographic Image in Portuguese Colonial Exhibitions (1929 1940). - Chapter 10. Images of Angola and Mozambique in the Imperial Metropolis: Photographic Exhibitions Held at the Palácio Foz (1938 1960). - Chapter 11. Vision and violence. Black women s bodies on display (1900 1975). - Part III Holding the Empire: Political Violence, Labour, Struggle. - Chapter 12. Images That Kill: Counterinsurgency and Photography in Angola Circa 1961. - Chapter 13. Colonial War/Liberation Struggle in Guinea Bissau: From Personal Photographs to Public Silences. - Chapter 14. Curating the Past: Memory, History, and Private Photographs of the Portuguese Colonial Wars. - Chapter 15. Photographic Colonial Agency: The Work of Agostiniano de Oliveira at the Diamang (1948 1966). - Chapter 16. `Our Nightly Bread : Women and the City in Ricardo Rangel s Photographs of Lourenço Marques, Mozambique (1950s 1960s). /