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Recaptioning Congo places the colonial Congo's photography history in new perspectives. Six writers and everyday Congolese urban voices take an African-centered look at imperial archival images and provide them with creative, contemporary and/or literary 'captions'. The book, linked to an exhibition in the photography museum FOMU Antwerp, is based upon the extensive research of the photographic history of colonial Congo (1885 – 1960), conducted by Dr. Sandrine Colard. It contains a wealth of revealing images that highlight the relationship between past and present, Africa and Europe and Belgium and Congo.

Text in English, French and Dutch.



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Recaptioning Congo is on the list of the New York Times 2022 Art Book: "…unfolds rare amateur photo magazines, 1930s studio portraiture, and missionary and ethnographic documentation, and also wrenching but important photos of colonial atrocities." - New York Times

Recaptioning Congo: African Stories and Colonial

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    A Hardback by Sandrine Colard, Jean Bofane, Suzanne Freitas

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      Publisher: Lannoo Publishers
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 13/10/2022
      ISBN13: 9789401486231, 978-9401486231
      ISBN10: 9401486239

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Recaptioning Congo places the colonial Congo's photography history in new perspectives. Six writers and everyday Congolese urban voices take an African-centered look at imperial archival images and provide them with creative, contemporary and/or literary 'captions'. The book, linked to an exhibition in the photography museum FOMU Antwerp, is based upon the extensive research of the photographic history of colonial Congo (1885 – 1960), conducted by Dr. Sandrine Colard. It contains a wealth of revealing images that highlight the relationship between past and present, Africa and Europe and Belgium and Congo.

      Text in English, French and Dutch.



      Trade Review
      Recaptioning Congo is on the list of the New York Times 2022 Art Book: "…unfolds rare amateur photo magazines, 1930s studio portraiture, and missionary and ethnographic documentation, and also wrenching but important photos of colonial atrocities." - New York Times

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