Bøger af Sandrine Colard

Style Congo: Heritage & Heresy untersucht die Politik der kulturellen Repräsentation und Aneignung anhand zeitgenössischer künstlerischer und architektonischer Interventionen und historischer Materialien, die hauptsächlich aus der CIVA-Sammlung in Brüssel stammen. Ausgehend von der gleichnamigen Ausstellung und beginnend mit dem Jugendstil wird in diesem Buch die Darstellung des Kongo in internationalen und kolonialen Ausstellungen in Belgien, Frankreich und dem Kongo zwischen 1885 und 1958 nachgezeichnet.

Congolese fiction and memoir writers, and everyday voices revisit the photographic archives of the colonial CongoWith contributions from celebrated authors such as Sinzo Aanza, Jean Bofane and Annie Lulu, e.a.Based upon the extensive research of the colonial Congo's photographic history by Dr. Sandrine ColardRecaptioning Congo places the colonial Congo's photography history in new perspectives. Six writers and everyday Congolese urban voices take an African-centered look at imperial archival images and provide them with creative, contemporary and/or literary 'captions'. The book, linked to an exhibition in the photography museum FOMU Antwerp, isbased upon the extensive research of the photographic history of colonial Congo (1885 - 1960), conducted by Dr. Sandrine Colard. It contains a wealth of revealing images that highlight the relationship between past and present, Africa and Europe and Belgium and Congo.

From 19th-century studio practice through the independence era, African photography has been known for modes of portraiture that crystallize the sitter's identity and social milieu. This title reconsiders African contemporary photographic portraiture by presenting four practitioners whose concerns range well beyond questions of social identity.