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- Book Synopsis
- 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? InLight 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.
- About The Author
- T. Jack Thompson is former director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. His other books includeImages of Africa and Christianity in Northern Malawi.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780802865243
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, (20 April 2012)
- Number of Pages
- 304
- Weight
- 440 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 155 x 232 x 20 mm
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