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Images as History Seminar Series: Africa in the US Cold War Photographic Archive
03 December 2024, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Dr Kimberly Schreiber, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, hosts the second seminar of the series on photography and history in the Americas.
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Open to
- All
Availability
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Organiser
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Kimberly Schreiber – Institute of the Americas
Location
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10351 Gordon SquareLondonWC1H 0PNUnited Kingdom
Drawing on extensive research into the archives of the United States Information Agency (USIA), this talk will explore the role photography played in the United States’ appeal to Africa from the mid-1950s through to the late 1960s. The talk will come out of Newbury’s latest book Cold War Photographic Diplomacy, which chronicles the work photography was expected to perform as it entered the visual culture of African cities during a time of African decolonization, racial conflict in the United States, and the cultural Cold War.
About the Speaker
Darren Newbury
at University of Brighton
Darren Newbury’s principal research interests lie in the relationship between photography, history, politics and cultural memory, with a particular concentration on Africa, and South Africa specifically.
He has also co-edited a Special Issue of Visual Studies on ‘Photography and African Futures’ (2018) with Richard Vokes, which through a series of case studies examines how and why, from early colonial times onwards, states, institutions, political parties, civil society organizations and individual citizens used photography as a means for representing various kinds of imagined futures.
In addition to academic publications, he has curated exhibitions at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (2011-12) and District Six Museum, Cape Town (2013-14), based on his photographic research.
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