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Title Women photographers in Angola And Mozambique (1909-1950): A history of an absence
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/10451/50101
Date 2020
Author(s) Gomes, Inês Vieira
Abstract In 1933, an Angolan newspaper published an advertisement for the Overseas Tobacco Factory announcing prizes for their Christmas draw. It was illustrated with a line drawing of a young white woman carrying an Agfa camera (Figure 4.1). The illustration raises a number of questions. To what extent did white women actually participate in photographic practice at the time? And what did this woman's visual presence signify about the relationship between women and photography in the Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique? The image evokes earlier advertisements for Kodak, which from 1893 frequently depicted women holding cameras, linking ideas about women's independence to the popular medium of photography. Echo Photographico: Jornal de Propaganda Photographica (1906'c. 1913), a photography newspaper published in Portugal aimed at professional and amateur photographers, had included a similar illustration of a woman carrying a camera on its frst cover more than two decades earlier. The woman's presence on the cover, however, does not seem to have had any correlation to the newspaper content. In the frst four years of its publication, only three women were mentioned (Flores 2017: 136'7). This is an absence that is refected in photographic historiography. Setting aside the visual presence of women in photographs, dominant accounts of the history of Portuguese photography, such as António Sena's História da Imagem Fotográfca em Portugal 1839'1997 (1998), follow the same paradigm: few women are mentioned, and none related to the former Portuguese colonies. - info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Language eng
Publisher Routledge
Type of publication bookPart
Rights restrictedAccess
Identifier Gomes, I. V. (2020). Women photographers in Angola And Mozambique (1909-1950): A history of an absence. In Newbury, D.a, Rizzo, L.b, Thomas, K. (Eds.), Women and photography in Africa: Creative practices and feminist challenges, pp. 62-80. Routledge; 978-1350-136-564
Repository Lissabon - University of Lissabon
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