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In and Out of Focus: Images from Central Africa, 1885-1960 (Paperback)

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Key Phrases: silver gelatin print, photographic encounters, colonial photography, Belgian Congo, Congo Free State, Casimir Zagourski (more...)

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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers (May 2, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0856675520
ISBN-13: 978-0856675522
Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 9 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
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Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,340,558 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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silver gelatin print, photographic encounters, colonial photography, qui disparait, trade card

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Belgian Congo, Congo Free State, Casimir Zagourski, L'Illustration Congolaise, Postcard Collection, World War, Zagourski Collection, Congo River, Force Publique, King Leopold, United States, French Congo, Courtesy Pierre Loos, Eliot Elisofon, Keystone View Company, Lennart Nilsson, Oriental Province, Queen Elisabeth, Africa-Museum Tervuren, Ministry of the Colonies, Congopresse Collection, Sierra Leone, White Fathers, Casimir Zagourskl, New York

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Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad on page 39, page 60, and Back Matter
Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad on page 39, page 60, and Back Matter
Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation by Michael D. Harris in Front Matter, page 21, and Back Matter
Seydou Keita by Seydou Keita on page 107, and page 108
The Cambridge History of Africa (Volume 2) by J. D. Fage in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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