[DEBATE] : (Fwd) Jeff Guy on Zulu leaders' historical images, Thursday eve at Killie Campbell

[Patrick Bond]

SUBJECTS OR OBJECTS: KINGS, AMAKHOSI, THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE,
AND THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER IN COLONIAL NATAL
In his final lecture in this semester’s lecture series ‘The Public Face 
of African
Scholarship’ Professor Jeff Guy continues the theme of visuality in 
African studies by
demonstrating the importance of seeing photographs as history, not mere 
illustrations of
history. He takes his examples from some of the remarkable photographs 
of African
leaders in colonial Natal, showing how some were able to gain control of 
their image
and use it in their cause, and others had their image torn from them. 
However, by
examining the changing technologies of photography within an historical 
context, he is
able to argue that ultimately, it was the photographic image which was 
able to assert
itself in the anti-colonial cause.
DATE: Thursday 15 NOVEMBER 2007
TIME: 18:00
VENUE: CAMPBELL COLLECTIONS 220 MARRIOTT ROAD
RSVP: MWELELA CELE (031) 260 1716 celem1 at ukzn.ac.za
WEBSITE: http://campbell.ukzn.ac.za/