Daniel Foliard, "The violence of colonial photography"
English | ISBN: 1526163314 | 2022 | 368 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The late nineteenth century saw a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French and British empires. It was also the period in which the camera began to be widely available. Colonial authorities were quick to recognise the power of this new technology, which they used to humiliate defeated opponents and to project an image of supremacy across the world.
