Name: Light On Darkness
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Light On Darkness

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In its earliest days, photography was seen as inherently free of ideological bias. Today, in the world of Photoshop, we are rightly more skeptical – at least most of the time. When it comes to photography from the past, we tend to set some of our skepticism aside. But should we? In Light on Darkness? leading historian of African Christianity T. Jack Thompson revisits a body of photography long taken at face value – that generated by British missionaries to sub-Saharan Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – and demonstrates that much more is going on in these images than meets the eye. This book offers a careful reassessment of missionary photographers, their photographs, and their African and European audiences, including over 70 fascinating photographs from the period.

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SKU (ISBN): 9780802865243
ISBN10: 0802865240
T. Jack Thompson
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: April 2012
Studies In The History Of Christian Missions
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

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