Books by Daniel Foliard
“The subject matter of this important book is the image. It’s about photography, the invention of the camera, and where the camera went initially, towards the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The author captures that moment whereby travellers—whether they were colonial administrators, journalists, voyeurs or anybody who could get hold of a camera—and what they did in the context of a colonial situation. It is not about photography in general; it’s about photography in the specific context of the colonial encounter between colonial powers—their military, officers, soldiers, travellers, and journalists—and local communities in the process of being colonised, possibly terrorised, repressed, mutilated, and killed. There are horrific images that were reproduced. The book delves in greater detail into how these images were circulating towards the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century in the metropolis, in the centres where colonialism was at its height, mainly in Britain and France.” Read more...
The 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
Madawi Al-Rasheed, Anthropologist
Interviews where books by Daniel Foliard were recommended
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
by Tania Branigan -
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Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
by Nandini Das -
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The Violence of Colonial Photography
by Daniel Foliard -
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Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
by Kris Manjapra -
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Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
by Irene Vallejo -
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Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
by Dimitris Xygalatas
The 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, recommended by Madawi Al-Rasheed
The 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, recommended by Madawi Al-Rasheed
The annual British Academy Book Prize seeks out books that promote ‘global cultural understanding’—something we could all do with more of right now. Anthropologist Madawi Al-Rasheed, a visiting professor at LSE and one of the prize’s judges, talks us through the six excellent books that made the 2023 shortlist, from the ancient Library of Alexandria to fire walking in contemporary Greece.
