Thompson, T. Jack,

Light on darkness? : missionary photography of Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / [print] T. Jack Thompson. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Company, [(c)2012. - xviii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Studies in the history of Christian missions . - Studies in the history of Christian missions. .



The beginnings of photography The photographer and the artist : visual representation on Livingstone's Zambezi expedition "Dr. Livingstone, I presume" : visual representations of Stanley's expedition to "find" Livingstone Creating an Africa for Africans? : Scottish missions in South Africa and Malawi The camera and the Congo : missionary photography and Leopold's atrocities Missionaries and the magic lantern New ways of seeing : radical missionaries and critical theories.

"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



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Missions--History--Africa, Sub-Saharan--19th century.
Photography--History--Africa, Sub-Saharan--19th century.
Missions--History--Africa, Sub-Saharan--20th century.
Photography--History--Africa, Sub-Saharan--20th century.


Africa, Sub-Saharan--Church history--19th century.
Africa, Sub-Saharan--Church history--20th century.
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