Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe

by Tina M. Campt

In Image Matters , Tina M. Campt traces the emergence of a black European subject by examining how specific black European communities used family photography to create forms of identification and community. At the heart of Campt's study are two photographic archives, one composed primarily of snapshots of black German families taken between 1900 and 1945, and the other assembled from studio portraits of West Indian migrants to Birmingham, England,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822350742
• ISBN13: 9780822350743
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.8"