Richly illustrated with over 100 images, this volume explores the role of photography in raising historical consciousness from a variety of geographic, cultural

Moving the critical debate about photography away from its current Euro-American center of gravity, Photography’s Other Histories breaks with the notion that

Photography and anthropology share strikingly parallel histories. Christopher Pinney's provocative and eminently readable account provides a polemical narrative

DIVA collection seeking to rethink photography as a globally disseminated and locally appropriated medium, rather than as one advanced almost exclusively throug

Highlights the role of photography and other forms of aesthetic practice in processes of state formation and bureaucratic transition