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40001-01 - Seminar: Photography in Africa: From the Colonial Archive to Post-Black Subjectivity (3 KP)
| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2015 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Fiona Siegenthaler (fiona.siegenthaler@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Photography in Africa has been used and produced on the continent since its invention in the 19th century. Introduced by explorers, missionaries and members of the colonial administration, photography was soon adopted and appropriated by local elites and later professionals and lay practitioners. New aesthetics and representational forms evolved that sourced from both, local and foreign aesthetics, and as with all visual culture, in the course of its history, photographic practice and its visual expression reflected and often also commented on political, economic and cultural change. The seminar looks at photographic practices and aesthetics in their specific historical and cultural contexts. We start with the power relations inherent in representation as much as the archival impulse in the use of photography in the colonial project, continuing with case examples of local appropriations and adaptations such as studio photography and its use in domestic settings and social events. Photography became both a new medium for older visual and material traditions and a means for self-representation. It thus also engendered genres different to those known in Europe. Later, it also played a crucial role in photojournalism, particularly in liberation and resistance photography. Independence, coinciding with new technologies, brought about new markets and aesthetics as well as individual African photographers who are today well known in the international art world. The seminar concludes with postcolonial photography within an inter- and transnational art context that reconsiders and deconstructs the colonial visual archive of representation and aims at transgressing the aesthetics of Othering, proposing what has been controversially coined as ‘post-black’ subjectivity and aesthetics. The seminar approaches photography in Africa through literature documenting and analyzing representative examples of genres and practices. Close analysis of individual photographs, the discussion of post-colonial theoretical approaches and the visit to a photographic archive offer an introduction to crucial aspects in the scholarly practice related to photography in Africa that will be deepened in the individual seminar thesis. |
| Lernziele | - The students know the general history of photography in Africa and are able to distinguish locally and historically specific visual practices and genres. - The students are able to analyze photographs critically, informed by the systematic practice of looking as well as by theories of representation and post-colonial critique. - The students demonstrate competence in both, aesthetic and practice-related aspects of photography, especially in terms of production, dissemination, social use and cultural interpretation. - The students are familiar with methodological, institutional and cultural implications of photographic archives. |
| Literatur | Enwezor, Okwui (2006): Snap judgments. New positions in contemporary African photography. New York, Göttingen: Steidl. Garb, Tamar, ed. (2013): Distance and desire. Encounters with the African archive. Göttingen: Steidl. Haney, Erin (2010): Photography and Africa. London: Reaktion Books. Haney, Erin; Schneider, Jürg, eds. (2014): Beyond the ‘African’ Archive Paradigm. Visual Anthropology 27 (4), special issue. Ogbechie, Sylvester Okwunodu et al., eds. (2010): Photography in Africa. History of Photography, vol. 34, no. 1-4. Abington: Taylor & Francis. Peffer, John; Cameron, Elisabeth L., eds. (2013): Portraiture & photography in Africa. Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Vokes, Richard (2012): Photography in Africa. Ethnographic perspectives. Woodbridge, Suffolk, New York: James Currey. |
| Weblink | https://ethnologie.unibas.ch/studies/cou |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | Die Teilnehmerzahl ist auf 30 Personen beschränkt. Die Plätze werden nach Belegdatum und Studienfachzugehörigkeit vergeben. Vorrang haben die Studierenden der unter "Module" aufgelisteten Studienfächer/-gänge. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | ADAM Workspace |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Fields: Media and Imagination (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Forschungsfelder der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Herrschaft und Normativität (Master Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul History (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Lebensverhältnisse, Umwelt und Ökonomie (Master Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Sachthematische Fragestellungen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Master Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Social Anthropology (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Subjekt, Körper und Identität (Master Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Themenfeld: Herrschaft, Normativität und symbolische Ordnung (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung) Modul Themenfeld: Lebensverhältnisse, Umwelt und Ökonomie (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung) Modul Themenfeld: Subjekt, Körper, Identität (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung) Modul Themenfelder der Geschlechterforschung (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Theory and General Anthropology (Master Studienfach: Anthropology) Modul Vertiefung Themenfeld: Herrschaft, Normativität und symbolische Ordnung (Master Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung) Modul Vertiefung Themenfeld: Lebensverhältnisse, Umwelt und Ökonomie (Master Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung) Modul Vertiefung Themenfeld: Subjekt, Körper, Identität (Master Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung) Modul Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung in der Ethnologie: Sachthemen (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | All Students are expected to attend the seminar on a regular basis and to make an active oral contribution which will be defined at the first meeting. Students who intend to write a seminar thesis are required to contact the lecturer as soon as possible before the beginning of the semester. |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Ethnologie |