Contesting Visibility Photographic Practices on the East African Coast 1st Edition by Heike Behrend 3839424569 9783839424568

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ISBN 10: 3839424569 

ISBN 13: 9783839424568

Author: Heike Behrend

Since the introduction of photography by commercial studio photographers and the colonial state in Kenya, this global medium has been intensely debated and contested among Muslims on the cosmopolitan East African coast. This book does not only explore the making, circulation, and consumption of popular photographs, but also the other side, their rejection and obliteration, an essential aspect of a medium’s history that should not be neglected. It deals with various “social spaces of refusal” in the local Muslim milieu and in that of “traditional” spirit mediums in which (gendered) visibility was (and is) contested in various and creative ways. It focuses on the “aesthetics of withdrawal”: the various ways and techniques that process the photographic act as well as the photographic image to theatricalize the surface of the image in new ways by veiling, masking, and concealing. In a fragmented historical perspective, Heike Behrend seeks to complement, decenter, and counter the history of photography as it has been told by the West and to narrate another history beginning with preceding local media such as textiles and spirit possession.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction 

Chapter 2 Providing the Context: The East African Coast 

Chapter 3 Polemic Encounters: Photography as Medium and Object of Ethnographic Research 

Chapter 4 Textiles and Images: Photography as Unveiling 

Chapter 5 Creating Spectacles: Studio Photographers of the Indian Diaspora 

Chapter 6 Ambulant Photographers 

Chapter 7 The Bakor Studio and the “Aesthetics of Withdrawal” 

Chapter 8 Weddings, Photography, and the Aura of Modernity 

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