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Cover
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Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Study of Photographic Portraiture in Africa
Part One. Exchange
1 Portrait Photography: A Visual Currency in the Atlantic Visualscape
2 Lutterodt Family Studios and the Changing Face of Early Portrait Photographs from the Gold Coast
3 Yoruba Studio Photographers in Francophone West Africa
4 The Fieldworker and the Portrait: The Social Relations of Photography
Part Two. Social Lives
5 “A Photograph Steals the Soul”: The History of an Idea
6 The Past in the Present: Photographic Portraiture and the Evocation of Multiple Histories in the Bamum Kingdom of Cameroon
7 Mombasa on Display: Photography and the Formation of an Urban Public, from the 1940s Onward
8 Portrait Photography in a Postcolonial Age: How Beauty Tells the Truth
Part Three. Traditions
9 Likeness or Not: Musings on Portraiture in Canonical African Art and Its Implications for African Portrait Photography
10 Àkó-graphy: Owo Portraits
11 Visual Griots: Identity, Aesthetics, and the Social Roles of Portrait Photographers in Mali
12 The Intermediality of Portraiture in Northern Côte d’Ivoire
Contributors
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