Light on Darkness?: Missionary Photography of Africa in the Nineteenth and ... - T. Jack Thompson - Google Books

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In its earliest days, photography was seen as depicting its subjects with such objectivity as to be inherently free of ideological bias. Today we are rightly more skeptical -- at least most of the time. When it comes to photography from the past, we tend…