Light on darkness? : missionary photography of Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / T. Jack Thompson.

Author: Thompson, T. Jack.

Imprint:Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2012.

Descriptionxviii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:The beginnings of photography -- The photographer and the artist : visual representation on Livingstone's Zambezi expedition -- "Dr. Livingstone, I presume" : visual representations of Stanley's expedition to "find" Livingstone -- Creating an Africa for Africans? : Scottish missions in South Africa and Malawi -- The camera and the Congo : missionary photography and Leopold's atrocities -- Missionaries and the magic lantern -- New ways of seeing : radical missionaries and critical theories.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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