Portrait and Place - Photography in Senegal, 18401960

About the author

Giulia Paoletti is assistant professor of art history at the University of Virginia. She is the coeditor of The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portraiture from Africa.

Additional text

"Using portraits and pictures of places taken between the 1840’s and 1960’s, Giulia Paoletti… shows that the country enjoyed a thriving photographic tradition, especially among women."---Elizabeth Fitzherbert, The Lady

Product details

• Authors: Giulia Paoletti
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.03.2024
• EAN: 9780691246017
• ISBN: 978-0-691-24601-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Senegal, Photography & photographs, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, PHOTOGRAPHY / General, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), HISTORY / Africa / West, ART / African, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, African History, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Photography and photographs, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies