Light on darkness? : missionary photography of Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / T. Jack Thompson. [print]
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TextSeries: Studies in the history of Christian missionsPublication details: Grand Rapids, Michigan : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Company, [(c)2012.Description: xviii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780802865243
- 0802865240
- Missions -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 19th century
- Photography -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 19th century
- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Church history -- 19th century
- Missions -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 20th century
- Photography -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 20th century
- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Church history -- 20th century
- Afrika
- BV3520.L544 2012
- BV3520.T477.L544 2012
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| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) | G. Allen Fleece Library Circulating Collection - First Floor | Non-fiction | BV3520.T56 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31923001755491 |
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"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? In Light 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."--Publisher's description.
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