AMBIVALENT, photography and visibility in African history

351pp., b/w & colour plus., map, paperback, First SA Edition, Jacana, Johannesburg, 2021

ISBN: 9781431431366

FIrst published in the USA in 2021.

Contributions include:

"Ambivalent Mediations, photographic desire, anxiety, and knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Central Africa' by Isabelle de Rezende

"Empty Photographs, ethnography and the lacunae of African history" by Patricia Hayes

"Unstable Forms, photography, race, and the identity document in South Africa" by Ingrid Masondo

"The Pass Photograph and the Intimate Photographic Event in South Africa" by Gary Minkley

"Photography, Mass Violence, and Survivors, the Cassinga Massacre of 1978" by Vilho Shigwedha

"The Profane and the Prophetic at a South African Beach" by Phindi Mnyaka

"Images of Ambivalence, photography in the making of Omhedi, Northern Namibia" by Napandulwe Shiweda.

Patricia Hayes is National Research Foundation SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape. She has published extensively on colonial and documentary photography in southern Africa.

Gary Minkley is National Research Foundation SARChI Chair in Social Change in the History Department, University of Fort Hare. He is co-author of Unsettled History: Making South African Public Past and co-editor of Remains of the Social, desiring the post apartheid.