Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation questions how the Black female body, specifically the Black maternal body, navigates interlocking structures that place a false narrative on her body and that of her maternal ancestors. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly inquiry and contemporary art, this book addresses these misconceptions and fills in the gaps that exist in the photographic representation of Black motherhood, mothering, and mutual care within Black communities.

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Susannah Stracer’s 'Another world out there' spans over three decades of outdoors photography. Although her main subject is people, it would be a mistake to call it social. No stories are being told, no deeper context is suggested. A split second of reality is captured and being transported into the universe of aesthetics. Susannah doesn’t participate, she doesn’t interfere - she takes scenes from the everyday outdoors and elevates them into the higher reality of light and shadow, lines...

Starting in 2009, Wytske van Keulen continuously visited several individuals in France, the United States, and Japan who, for different reasons, chose to set aside our largely economised and de-spiritualised world. She depicts these peoples’ living environments in her series ‘Stick Holding Branch’, but the inhabitants are absent, allowing the significance of the images to shift from documentary to the realm of the image, freed from space and time. Van Keulen’s photographs are accompan...

Selfies werden honderd jaar geleden ook al gemaakt, ‘snapshotesthetiek’ bestond al voor de Polaroidcamera en pasfoto’s zijn ouder dan de identificatieplicht. 'De snelfotograaf. Een geschiedenis van het moderne portret' speelt zich af in de beginjaren van de twintigste eeuw, een tijd van razende snelheid en een tijd waarin veel van wat we nu als vanzelfsprekend ervaren tot stand kwam. Deze ‘moderne’ eeuw – vol ondernemingsdrift, technische vernuftigheid en transnationale handel –...