Neils Walwin Holm: Radicalising the Image in Lagos Colony, West Africa
2013; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 37; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/03087298.2012.758414
ISSN2150-7295
Autores Tópico(s)African history and culture studies
ResumoAbstract This essay traces the professional trajectory of N. W. Holm, the pre-eminent photographer of Lagos, West Africa, from the 1890s until 1910. He then trained as a barrister in London and established law chambers in Lagos in 1918, despite having extolled the virtues of photography as a profession. This was at a time of increasing exclusion and discrimination of Africans by colonial administrations in West Africa. Holm had been present at the first Pan-African conference, held in London in 1900, and was appointed as secretary to represent Lagos Colony for the first Pan-African Association that was a product of it. Around 1903/04 he instituted a commercial postcard archive that documented a trajectory of Lagosian modernity and cosmopolitanism that both had preceded and sought to undermine the colonial ideologies of scientific racism and primitivism to which the colonial government and a new influx of Europeans subscribed. Keywords: Neils Walwin Holm (1865–1927?)Lagos Colonyphotographypostcard archivePan-African Conference 1900cosmopolitanism
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