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(RE-)EXPOSING OLD “NEGATIVES”: NEW DISCOURSES AND METHODOLOGIES IN PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIES ON AFRICA - Heike Behrend. Contesting Visibility: Photographic Practices on the East African Coast. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript-Verlag, 2013. 265 pp. List of Illustrations. Preface and Acknowledgments. Bibliography. $38.50. Paper. - Okwui Enwezor and Rory Bester, eds. Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life. New York: International Center of Photography, 2013. 544 pp. Director’s Foreword. Preface and Acknowledgments. Contributors. Photo Credits. $50.00. Cloth. - John Peffer and Elisabeth L. Cameron, eds. Portraiture and Photography in Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xvi + 452 pp. Foreword. Acknowledgments. Contributors. Index. $35.00. Paper. - Richard Vokes, ed. Photography in Africa: Ethnographic Perspectives. Suffolk, U.K.: James Curry, 2012. xv + 272 pp. List of Figures. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Index. $63.00. Cloth. $28.45. Paper.

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Heike Behrend. Contesting Visibility: Photographic Practices on the East African Coast. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript-Verlag, 2013. 265 pp. List of Illustrations. Preface and Acknowledgments. Bibliography. $38.50. Paper.
Okwui Enwezor and Rory Bester, eds. Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life. New York: International Center of Photography, 2013. 544 pp. Director’s Foreword. Preface and Acknowledgments. Contributors. Photo Credits. $50.00. Cloth.
John Peffer and Elisabeth L. Cameron, eds. Portraiture and Photography in Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xvi + 452 pp. Foreword. Acknowledgments. Contributors. Index. $35.00. Paper.

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2014

Drew Thompson
Drew Thompson*
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Bard College Annandale-On-Hudson, New Yorkdthompso@bard.edu
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African Studies Review , Volume 57 , Issue 3 , December 2014 , pp. 175 - 185
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