Photography and American Coloniality: Eliot Elisofon in Africa, 1942-1972

by Raoul Granqvist

Book Overview

This book is the first to question both why and how the colonialist mythologies represented by the work of photographer Eliot Elisofon persist. It documents and discusses a heterogeneous practice of American coloniality of power as it explores Elisofon's career as war photographer-correspondent and staff photographer for LIFE, filmmaker, author, artist, and collector of "primitive art" and sculpture. It focuses on three areas: Elisofon's narcissism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611862361
• ISBN13: 9781611862362
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"