International conference proceedings from a gathering on the occasion of Paul Jenkins' retirement in August 2003. 7 English, 2 German contributions. Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-191).
Contents:
Thinking materially/thinking relationally / Elizabeth Edwards -- Der weg und die fotografie / Anton Holzer -- The Basel Mission as a transcultural organization : photographs of Chinese Christians and the problem of agency / Thoralf Klein -- Konstruktion, Sammlung und Archiz : Zur sozialen biografie der Feuerland-fotografien von Martin Gusinde / Marisol Palma -- The ethnologist and the missionaries : recording the 1908 Lela in Bali Nyonga / Richard Fardon -- Imaging the past : historicising portraits of the Kodagu and Nilgiri regions, South-East India / Barbara Frey -- Camera evangelistica-camera lucida? Trans-border experiences with historical photographs from a mission archive / Paul Jenkins -- Portraiture, authorship, and the inscription of history : photographic practice in the Bamum Kingdom, Cameroon (1902-1980) / Christraud M. Geary -- If these walls could talk : exploring the dynamic archive through Ghanaian portraiture / Erin Haney.
Summary:
"This publication is the result of the symposium "Getting Pictures Right" organised by a group of former students and assistants on the occasion of Paul Jenkins' retirement in August 2003."--Pref.
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