In and out of Focus: Images from Central Africa, 1885-1960 - Christraud M. Geary - Paperback

This book accompanies an exhibition at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, on the role of photography in Central Africa. This is the first book to link two related themes: the role of photographic images in constructing and circulating fantasies, ideas, and sentiments in Europe and the US relating to the peoples of Central Africa; and the role of photography in enabling Africans to project images of themselves by becoming familiar with photographic technology. Broad in thematic and temporal scope, the book focuses on several time periods, especially on the years before and between the two world wars.Geary, Christraud M. is the author of 'In and out of Focus: Images from Central Africa, 1885-1960 - Christraud M. Geary - Paperback' with ISBN 9780856675515 and ISBN 0856675512.