CNN —The dominant perception of early photography from West Africa is that it was taken through a colonizing lens.
These are questions asked by a new book that seeks to re-examine the history of photography in the region.
Her book demonstrates that gap was short, and history has been obscured in a way that has disenfranchised many Africans.
Unlike some other West African nations, Senegal has no recorded history of portraiture before photography, Paoletti said.
HUM Images/Universal Images Group Editorial/Getty ImagesTo Paoletti, it’s evidence photography in West Africa didn’t evolve in isolation.
Persons:
Giulia Paoletti, ”, Mama Casset, “, ’, Frenchman Jules Itier, Louis, Paoletti, –, “ It’s, Adolphe Burdo, Burdo, visite, Burdo’s, Augustus Washington, Macky Kane, – Paula, ’ ”, Alfred Stieglitz, Fatou Thioune, Paula, ” Paoletti, Oumar Ka, Ka, I’d, Oumar
Organizations:
CNN, Department of Art, University of Virginia, CRDS, Dakar ”, Sun, The, Institut, du Sénégal, University of Dakar, Princeton University Press
Locations:
West Africa, Senegal, ‘, St, French West Africa, Belgian, Dakar, “, Africa, Berlin, Louis, Touba, Senegalese