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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Postcards from Africa
    sub title: photographers of the colonial era : selections from the Leonard A. Lauder postcard archives
  name:
    name part: Geary, Christraud M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    role:
      role term: host institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 147 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
  abstract: During the global postcard craze that peaked around 1900 and continued for several decades thereafter, photographers in Africa grasped the opportunity to serve a lucrative market for images of the continent, both locally and worldwide. Their picture postcards now contribute to understanding political and cultural changes in Africa at the time, as the rise of the new medium coincided with the expansion and consolidation of colonial rule. They also provide a way to reconstruct the life and work of the photographers of European, African and other backgrounds who created these images, which often survive only in postcard form and in some cases published them as well. The cards were produced for residents and travelers in Africa, as well as for buyers and collectors who had never set foot on the continent. Their depictions of colonial administrations and the exploitation of resources and peoples, as well as images inscribing tribal identities and racial classifications, often reflect the colonizers' worldview. Yet it is also possible to recover the authorship of some of the African women and men who participated in these photographic encounters. For instance, some cards show that members of Africa's elites recognized the power of photographic images to enhance their standing and present their own narratives.
  note: Christraud M. Geary.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f------
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
    genre: Pictorial works
  subject:
    topic: Africans
    genre: Pictorial works
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lauder, Leonard A
    topic: Art collections
  subject:
    topic: Postcards
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    topic: Communication and culture
    geographic: Africa
  classification: 960.022/2
  identifier: 9780878468553
  identifier: 0878468552
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 180622
    record change date: 20190122151009.0
    record identifier: in00004014715