Sissy Helff / Stefanie Michels (eds.)
Global Photographies
Memory – History – Archives
How is p... more Sissy Helff / Stefanie Michels (eds.) Global Photographies Memory – History – Archives How is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production of pictures, secondly, in the decoding of colonial and contemporary photography, and thirdly, in collecting photographs in picture archives dealing with colonial, anthropological and family photography. The contributions sketch the contested field of global photography and trace the manifold intertwinements between historical and contemporary photographs.
Table of Contents
Preface Sissy Helff/Stefanie Michels | 7
Re-framing Photography – Some Thoughts Stefanie Michels | 9
African Photography in the Atlantic Visualscape Moving Photographers – Circulating Images Jürg Schneider | 19
Elective Affinities? History and Photography Jens Jäger | 39
How to use Colonial Photography in Sub-Saharan Africa for Educational and Academic Purposes The case of Togo Kokou Azamede | 57
Der Leiter des ethnografischen Bildarchivs und Mitherausgeber der Studien zur Kulturkunde Dr. Ric... more Der Leiter des ethnografischen Bildarchivs und Mitherausgeber der Studien zur Kulturkunde Dr. Richard Kuba und die Kunsthistorikerin und Mitarbeiterin des Frobenius-Instituts Dr. Hélène Ivanoff sprechen mit Hadi Khatib Slgini, Student der Ethnologie an der Universität Frankfurt, über das von ANR und DFG geförderte „Anthropos-Projekt“
Anfange: Unter A. versteht man die Nutzung groser landwirtschaftlicher Flachen bei intensiver Bod... more Anfange: Unter A. versteht man die Nutzung groser landwirtschaftlicher Flachen bei intensiver Bodenbearbeitung zur Gewinnung von Pflanzenertragen fur Nahrung, Kleidung und Futtermittel. Er nimmt mit der Seshaftwerdung spatmesolithischer Kulturen seinen Anfang: Alteste Pflanzenreste, die auf A. schliesen lassen, sind in Vorderasien im Gebiet des ›Fruchtbaren Halbmondes‹ aus der Zeit 8000 bis 6000 v.Chr. gefunden worden. Spater verfugten die mesopotamischen und agyptischen Hochkulturen schon uber einen entwickelten und spezialisierten A. Im griechisch-romischen Bereich schlieslich wird die Einfuhrung des A. durch die Sage in die Vorgeschichte (Geschenk der Demeter o. a. Gotter) verlegt, ist aber wohl im 4. Jahrtausend v.Chr. erfolgt. Die ersten archaologischen Befunde fur A. im griechischen Raum stammen jedoch aus der minoisch-mykenischen Epoche. In historischer Zeit ist der A. schlieslich unbestritten die wichtigste Grundlage der antiken Wirtschaft.
Powerful Pictures: Rock Art Research Histories around the World, 2022
Frobenius was the most famous German anthropologist of the first half of the twentieth century an... more Frobenius was the most famous German anthropologist of the first half of the twentieth century and an ambiguous figure. His endeavours as rock art researcher are less known. He believed that the great rock art traditions that he knew from the famous Franco-Cantabrian caves had not entirely vanished but persisted first in Northern Africa and spread from there to the rest of the continent. To prove this continuity, he undertook several expeditions to northern and southern Africa from 1913 onwards, always taking along professional artists to copy rock art onto paper and canvas. Combining oral tradition and ethnographic analogies, he was the first to speculate about shamanic practices depicted in southern African rock art. By the 1930s, he had established the world's largest archive of painted rock art copies and then sent out further expeditions to document rock art in Europe (Spain, France, Italy, Scandinavia), New Guinea and Australia. This paper traces aspects of Frobenius' intellectual oeuvre, his specific ideas about rock art, the motivations for his expeditions as well as the huge success he had in exhibiting rock art in the 1930s in Europe and the United States.
Kuba, R. & M. Porr 2022. Leo Frobenius’ contribution to global rock art research. In: J. Hampson & S. Challis & J. Goldhahn (eds.), Powerful Pictures: Rock Art Research Histories around the World. Oxford: Archaeopress, 76-88.
Der Zugang des Frankfurter Afrikaforschers Leo Frobenius zu Afrika war die Expedition. In insgesa... more Der Zugang des Frankfurter Afrikaforschers Leo Frobenius zu Afrika war die Expedition. In insgesamt zwölf »Deutschen Inner-Afrika Expeditionen «, die teilweise vom exilierten Kaiser Wilhelm II. finanziert wurden, bereiste und erforschte er weite Gebiete des Kontinents
Today, Dagara settlements can be found on both sides of the Black Volta River (Mouhoun), roughly ... more Today, Dagara settlements can be found on both sides of the Black Volta River (Mouhoun), roughly between the 11°20 ' and 10 ° parallels. The international boundary between Ghana and Burkina Faso divides a Dagara-speaking population which should soon reach a million persons. However, given ethnic categories have been suppressed in the population censuses of both Burkina Faso and Ghana since the 1960s, this can only be a rough estimate. The region lies within the Sudanic vegetation belt of the West African savannah, where millet, sorghum, corn and yams are grown as the main staples. Migrant labour has been an important economic factor in the region from early colonial times up to the present day, with many Dagara working the gold mines and plantations of southern Ghana and the Ivory Coast. In the last two hundred years, the Black Volta region has been the site of highly successful agricultural expansion by Dagara-speaking groups. Setting out probably from the area around Wa, smal...
Sissy Helff / Stefanie Michels (eds.)
Global Photographies
Memory – History – Archives
How is p... more Sissy Helff / Stefanie Michels (eds.) Global Photographies Memory – History – Archives How is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production of pictures, secondly, in the decoding of colonial and contemporary photography, and thirdly, in collecting photographs in picture archives dealing with colonial, anthropological and family photography. The contributions sketch the contested field of global photography and trace the manifold intertwinements between historical and contemporary photographs.
Table of Contents
Preface Sissy Helff/Stefanie Michels | 7
Re-framing Photography – Some Thoughts Stefanie Michels | 9
African Photography in the Atlantic Visualscape Moving Photographers – Circulating Images Jürg Schneider | 19
Elective Affinities? History and Photography Jens Jäger | 39
How to use Colonial Photography in Sub-Saharan Africa for Educational and Academic Purposes The case of Togo Kokou Azamede | 57
Der Leiter des ethnografischen Bildarchivs und Mitherausgeber der Studien zur Kulturkunde Dr. Ric... more Der Leiter des ethnografischen Bildarchivs und Mitherausgeber der Studien zur Kulturkunde Dr. Richard Kuba und die Kunsthistorikerin und Mitarbeiterin des Frobenius-Instituts Dr. Hélène Ivanoff sprechen mit Hadi Khatib Slgini, Student der Ethnologie an der Universität Frankfurt, über das von ANR und DFG geförderte „Anthropos-Projekt“
Anfange: Unter A. versteht man die Nutzung groser landwirtschaftlicher Flachen bei intensiver Bod... more Anfange: Unter A. versteht man die Nutzung groser landwirtschaftlicher Flachen bei intensiver Bodenbearbeitung zur Gewinnung von Pflanzenertragen fur Nahrung, Kleidung und Futtermittel. Er nimmt mit der Seshaftwerdung spatmesolithischer Kulturen seinen Anfang: Alteste Pflanzenreste, die auf A. schliesen lassen, sind in Vorderasien im Gebiet des ›Fruchtbaren Halbmondes‹ aus der Zeit 8000 bis 6000 v.Chr. gefunden worden. Spater verfugten die mesopotamischen und agyptischen Hochkulturen schon uber einen entwickelten und spezialisierten A. Im griechisch-romischen Bereich schlieslich wird die Einfuhrung des A. durch die Sage in die Vorgeschichte (Geschenk der Demeter o. a. Gotter) verlegt, ist aber wohl im 4. Jahrtausend v.Chr. erfolgt. Die ersten archaologischen Befunde fur A. im griechischen Raum stammen jedoch aus der minoisch-mykenischen Epoche. In historischer Zeit ist der A. schlieslich unbestritten die wichtigste Grundlage der antiken Wirtschaft.
Powerful Pictures: Rock Art Research Histories around the World, 2022
Frobenius was the most famous German anthropologist of the first half of the twentieth century an... more Frobenius was the most famous German anthropologist of the first half of the twentieth century and an ambiguous figure. His endeavours as rock art researcher are less known. He believed that the great rock art traditions that he knew from the famous Franco-Cantabrian caves had not entirely vanished but persisted first in Northern Africa and spread from there to the rest of the continent. To prove this continuity, he undertook several expeditions to northern and southern Africa from 1913 onwards, always taking along professional artists to copy rock art onto paper and canvas. Combining oral tradition and ethnographic analogies, he was the first to speculate about shamanic practices depicted in southern African rock art. By the 1930s, he had established the world's largest archive of painted rock art copies and then sent out further expeditions to document rock art in Europe (Spain, France, Italy, Scandinavia), New Guinea and Australia. This paper traces aspects of Frobenius' intellectual oeuvre, his specific ideas about rock art, the motivations for his expeditions as well as the huge success he had in exhibiting rock art in the 1930s in Europe and the United States.
Kuba, R. & M. Porr 2022. Leo Frobenius’ contribution to global rock art research. In: J. Hampson & S. Challis & J. Goldhahn (eds.), Powerful Pictures: Rock Art Research Histories around the World. Oxford: Archaeopress, 76-88.
Der Zugang des Frankfurter Afrikaforschers Leo Frobenius zu Afrika war die Expedition. In insgesa... more Der Zugang des Frankfurter Afrikaforschers Leo Frobenius zu Afrika war die Expedition. In insgesamt zwölf »Deutschen Inner-Afrika Expeditionen «, die teilweise vom exilierten Kaiser Wilhelm II. finanziert wurden, bereiste und erforschte er weite Gebiete des Kontinents
Today, Dagara settlements can be found on both sides of the Black Volta River (Mouhoun), roughly ... more Today, Dagara settlements can be found on both sides of the Black Volta River (Mouhoun), roughly between the 11°20 ' and 10 ° parallels. The international boundary between Ghana and Burkina Faso divides a Dagara-speaking population which should soon reach a million persons. However, given ethnic categories have been suppressed in the population censuses of both Burkina Faso and Ghana since the 1960s, this can only be a rough estimate. The region lies within the Sudanic vegetation belt of the West African savannah, where millet, sorghum, corn and yams are grown as the main staples. Migrant labour has been an important economic factor in the region from early colonial times up to the present day, with many Dagara working the gold mines and plantations of southern Ghana and the Ivory Coast. In the last two hundred years, the Black Volta region has been the site of highly successful agricultural expansion by Dagara-speaking groups. Setting out probably from the area around Wa, smal...
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Books by Richard Kuba
Global Photographies
Memory – History – Archives
How is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production of pictures, secondly, in the decoding of colonial and contemporary photography, and thirdly, in collecting photographs in picture archives dealing with colonial, anthropological and family photography. The contributions sketch the contested field of global photography and trace the manifold intertwinements between historical and contemporary photographs.
Table of Contents
Preface Sissy Helff/Stefanie Michels | 7
Re-framing Photography – Some Thoughts Stefanie Michels | 9
African Photography in the Atlantic Visualscape Moving Photographers – Circulating Images Jürg Schneider | 19
Elective Affinities? History and Photography Jens Jäger | 39
How to use Colonial Photography in Sub-Saharan Africa for Educational and Academic Purposes The case of Togo Kokou Azamede | 57
Presentness, Memory, and History: Thabiso Sekgala, “Homeland” Marie-Hélène Gutberlet | 69
On the Circulation of Colonial Pictures Polyphony and Fragmentation Hans Peter Hahn | 89
Portraits of Distant Worlds Frobenius’ Pictorial Archive and its Legacy Richard Kuba | 109
Reflexions on the Photographic Archive in the Humanities Margrit Prussat | 133
Re-imagining the Family Album through Literary Adaptation Sally Waterman | 155
Public Rites/Private Memories Reconciling the Social and Individual in Wedding Photography Jens Ruchatz | 177
Contributors | 205
Papers by Richard Kuba
Kuba, R. & M. Porr 2022. Leo Frobenius’ contribution to global rock art research. In: J. Hampson & S. Challis & J. Goldhahn (eds.), Powerful Pictures: Rock Art Research Histories around the World. Oxford: Archaeopress, 76-88.
Global Photographies
Memory – History – Archives
How is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production of pictures, secondly, in the decoding of colonial and contemporary photography, and thirdly, in collecting photographs in picture archives dealing with colonial, anthropological and family photography. The contributions sketch the contested field of global photography and trace the manifold intertwinements between historical and contemporary photographs.
Table of Contents
Preface Sissy Helff/Stefanie Michels | 7
Re-framing Photography – Some Thoughts Stefanie Michels | 9
African Photography in the Atlantic Visualscape Moving Photographers – Circulating Images Jürg Schneider | 19
Elective Affinities? History and Photography Jens Jäger | 39
How to use Colonial Photography in Sub-Saharan Africa for Educational and Academic Purposes The case of Togo Kokou Azamede | 57
Presentness, Memory, and History: Thabiso Sekgala, “Homeland” Marie-Hélène Gutberlet | 69
On the Circulation of Colonial Pictures Polyphony and Fragmentation Hans Peter Hahn | 89
Portraits of Distant Worlds Frobenius’ Pictorial Archive and its Legacy Richard Kuba | 109
Reflexions on the Photographic Archive in the Humanities Margrit Prussat | 133
Re-imagining the Family Album through Literary Adaptation Sally Waterman | 155
Public Rites/Private Memories Reconciling the Social and Individual in Wedding Photography Jens Ruchatz | 177
Contributors | 205
Kuba, R. & M. Porr 2022. Leo Frobenius’ contribution to global rock art research. In: J. Hampson & S. Challis & J. Goldhahn (eds.), Powerful Pictures: Rock Art Research Histories around the World. Oxford: Archaeopress, 76-88.