Jürg Schneider

Affiliated researcher

University of Basel

CH

Biografia

Jürg Schneider is a historian and affiliated researcher at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His teaching, writing and curatorial activities are centred on the African continent's rich photographic heritage and those who created it, with a particular focus on West and Central Africa. He is a co-founder of African Photography Initiatives, an organisation working in and with photo archives in Africa.

Artigos (1)

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Circulating West-African Photographs in the Atlantic Visualscape

In the second half of the 19th century, photographs circulated widely in a triangular region stretching between northeastern South America, Great Britain and West Africa, giving shape to a shared visualscape, where portraits of the African elite and exploration photographs often followed similar routes.