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Contributors pose new questions concerning the instability of the identity photograph in South Africa; ethnographic photographs as potential history; humanitarian discourse from the perspective of photographic survivors of atrocity photojournalism; the nuanced passage from studio to screen in postcolonial digital portraiture; and the burgeoning visual activism in West Africa.    As the contributors show, photography is itself a historical subject: it involves arrangement, financing, posture, positioning, and other kinds of work that are otherwise invisible. By moving us outside the frame of the photograph itself, by refusing to accept the photograph as the last word, this book makes photography an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Ambivalent‘s contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories.  Contributors: George Emeka Agbo, Isabelle de Rezende, Jung Ran Forte, Ingrid Masondo, Phindi Mnyaka, Okechukwu Nwafor, Vilho Shigwedha, Napandulwe Shiweda, Drew Thompson","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49735304806673,"sku":"NGR9780821423943","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0821423940.jpg?v=1754893974"},{"product_id":"definitive-book-on-the-afterlife-book-patricia-hayes-9781977223845","title":"The Definitive Book on the Afterlife","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis extraordinary book includes a broad spectrum of information that is focused into an easy-to-understand single best source on the Afterlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeath cannot separate us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike all other books on this topic, The Definitive Book of the Afterlife introduces an astonishing new way of looking at the Afterlife. 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