As a whole, The African Photographic Archive addresses many of the methodological, conceptual and analytical concerns that have become salient in studies of African photography in the recent past ... The African Photographic Archive opens up fruitful perspectives for future studies of African photography, and the book undoubtedly will be a rich fundus to students, curators, archivists and scholars of photography. - History of Photography
This is a culturally relevant choice, reflecting the many ways that local communities collect and interact with photographs ... which will lead scholars down new avenues in their research, whether or not their focus is specific to Africa. - Art Libraries Society of North America - Robin Potter, University of New Mexico, USA
This exciting collection treats photographic images and archives as messages offered to an unknown future. Traces of past events become revelatory in the hands of these stellar contributors. This is a book that should be read by everyone interested in the potential of new practices of visual history. - Christopher Pinney, Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture at University College London, UK
This is a timely and ground-breaking collection of essays that focusses on the construction of the African photographic archive as a contested, critical site of collection, reflection and re-invention. In eleven distinctive and finely-honed studies, the archive is stretched and extended - both geographically and theoretically - so that it ranges from the vernacular to the official, the ephemeral to the artistic, while opening up to question the very terms that it puts into place. - Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor in the History of Art at University College London, UK
This excellent book is for those who want to be there, for those who care for the images they study and the social relationships implied. - Anthropos