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 and
anthropological photography. The contributions sketch the contested
field of (post-)colonial photography and trace the manifold
intertwinements between historical and contemporary photographs.