Light on darkness
missionary photography of Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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Author
Publication
2011 - W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., Grand Rapids, Mich, Michigan
Language
English
Word Count
71,500 words, Guess
Page Count
286 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25078881M
- ISBN-139780802865243
- OCLC Control Number758244239
- Internet Archivelightondarknessm0000thom
- Library of Congress Control Number2011043011
Classifications
- DDC266/.0234067
- LCCBV3520 .T56 2011
Description
"In its earliest days, photography was seen as depicting its subjects with such objectivity as to be inherently free of ideological bias. Today we are rightly more skeptical -- at least most of the time. When it comes to photography from the past, we tend to set some of our skepticism aside. But should we? In Light on Darkness? T. Jack Thompson, a leading historian of African Christianity, revisits the body of photography generated by British missionaries to sub-Saharan Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and demonstrates that much more is going on in these images than meets the eye. This volume offers a careful reassessment of missionary photographers, their photographs, and their African and European audiences. Several dozen fascinating photographs from the period are included." -- Publisher's description.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Studies in the history of Christian missions
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