Getting Pictures Right
Subtitle: context and interpretation
By: edited by Michael Albrecht ... [et al.].
Contributors: Albrecht, Michael, 1962-; Getting Pictures Right (2004 : Basel, Switzerland)
Series: Topics in African studies -- v. 3
Publisher: Köppe
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Jenkins, Paul.; Documentary photography -- Africa -- Congresses.; Foto's.; Representatie (algemeen); Beeldcultuur.; Koloniale periode.; 6.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "This publication is the result of the symposium "Getting Pictures Right" organised by a group of former students and assistants on the occasion of Paul Jenkins' retirement in August 2003."--preface.
Notes: Internat. conference proceedings.

7 English, 2 German contributions.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-191).
Table of contents: title: Thinking materially/thinking relationally / Elizabeth Edwards; title: Der weg und die fotografie / Anton Holzer; title: The Basel Mission as a transcultural organization: photographs of Chinese Christians and the problem of agency / Thoralf Klein; title: Konstruktion, Sammlung und Archiz: Zur sozialen biografie der Feuerland-fotografien von Martin Gusinde / Marisol Palma; title: The ethnologist and the missionaries: recording the 1908 Lela in Bali Nyonga / Richard Fardon; title: Imaging the past: historicising portraits of the Kodagu and Nilgiri regions, South-East India / Barbara Frey; title: Camera evangelistica - camera lucida? Trans-border experiences with historical photographs from a mission archive / Paul Jenkins; title: Portraiture, authorship, and the inscription of history: photographic practice in the Bamum Kingdom, Cameroon (1902-1980) / Christraud M. Geary; title: If these walls could talk: exploring the dynamic archive through Ghanaian portraiture / Erin Haney.