Colonial Masters Posing With Women In The 70s
Colonial Masters Posing With Women In The 70s Here is the moment when the colonial masters are posing with women Hammock boys carry a railway engineer/track inspector in colonial Nigeria, 1910. Hammock boys, as they were referred to by the colonial masters, were paid 25-30 shillings carrying their masters from village to village. “When we speak of ‘shooting’ with a camera, we are acknowledging the kinship of photography and violence.” Teju Cole This visual essay will assess the ways in which early photography was used as a tool to justify Europe’s colonial project in Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries, by depicting Black Africans as inferior to white Europeans. It will also consider how the camera was used during the same period in the United States for a similar purpose, namely, to further the cause of white racial superiority. Africa: photography and the colonial project The invention of photography occurred at a most opportune moment for Europe’s colonial powers. Photography...