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Light on Darkness?

Missionary Photography of Africa in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

  • Paperback
  • 286 pages
  • Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company
  • 15.5 x 23.2 x 2.3 cm

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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.
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  • Author

    T Jack Thompson

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Eerdmans Publishing Company

  • Published

    June 2012

  • Weight

    441g

  • Page Count

    286

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.2 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780802865243

  • ISBN-10

    0802865240

  • Eden Code

    4025902

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