Global Photographies

How is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production of pictures, secondly, in the decoding of colonial and contemporary photography, and thirdly, in collecting photographs in picture archives dealing with colonial, anthropological and family photography. The contributions sketch the contested field of global photography and trace the manifold intertwinements between historical and contemporary photographs.

Sissy Helff teaches at the Goethe-University Frankfurt/M. in the department of New English Literatures. Her most recent publications include her monograph 'Unreliable Truths: Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women's Fiction of the Diaspora' (2012). She has been working as a journalist for development matters and cultural diplomacy and is one of the founding members of the cultural project 'Migration & Media'.Stefanie Michels teaches at the History Department of the University of Düsseldorf, Germany.