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Фотограф на отсъствието: Индустриалните пейзажи на един постколониален африкански град
A Photographer of Absence: The Industrial Landscapes of a Post-Colonial African City

Author(s): Bogumil Jewsiewicki
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН

Summary/Abstract: In the article, a historian presents his interpretation of the photographs and films of the young African photographer Sammi Baloji. The author contextualizes them by analyzing the works of urban artists (analysis of the link between modern visuality and Christianity in the construction of the modern African political community) and the role of photography as an icon of modern identity. Baloji shows something that everyone knows: modernity has been so „devoured“ by the selfish fathers that nothing now remains but the memory of that great time of liberation from colonialism, a time from which nothing but ruins remain. The more this lack of industrial modernity emerges, the more young people are confronted with the nostalgic narratives of the fathers about what it used to be. But Baloji’s generation has an entirely different strategy for „making modernity appear“. (Editor’s abstract)

  • Issue Year: 41/2009
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 256-271
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Bulgarian