Recaptioning Congo: African Stories and Colonial Pictures

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Recaptioning Congo offers a new perspective on Congo's colonial history through a nuanced re-examination of historical photographs. Six writers and a visual artist, led by Sandrine Colard of Rutgers University, contemplate an important collection of historical images and provide them with insightful, contemporary 'captions'. This book, linked to an exhibition at the photo museum FOMU Antwerp, is part of the first large-scale academic study of the photographic history of colonial Congo (1885 - 1960), and contains a wealth of revealing images that highlight the relationship between past and present, Africa and Europe, Belgium and Congo. Text in English, French and Dutch. AUTHOR: Dr. Sandrine Colard (ed.) is an independent curator, a researcher, and a professor of African art history at Rutgers University-Newark (New Jersey, USA). She is a 2021-2022 Getty/ACLS fellow for the completion of her manuscript about the history of photography in colonial Congo. SELLING POINTS: . Writers and artists take a new look at the photo archives of Colonial Congo . With contributions from celebrated writers and artists with Congolese roots such as Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Jean Bofane and Sammy Baloji . Based on the first-ever comprehensive survey of colonial Congo's photographic history, led by Dr. Sandrine Collard 50 colour, 250 b/w illustrations

Dr. Sandrine Colard (ed.) is an independent curator, a researcher, and a professor of art history at Rutgers University-Newark (New Jersey, USA). She is the recipient of multiple fellowships, such as the Ford Foundation, the musee du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, the Getty/ACLS fellowships, among others.

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