Distance and Desire

Distance and Desire is the first major publication to stage a dialogue between the ethnographic visions of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century African photography and engagements with the archive by contemporary artists. Presenting an extraordinary range of portraits, cartes de visite, postcards and album pages from Southern and Eastern Africa, as well as recent photography and video art, the catalogue includes orginal thematic essays by leading art historians, anthropologists and cultural critics.

THE WALTHER COLLECTION
Distance and Desire: exhibition catalogue and collateral
 
Distance and Desire is the first major publication to stage a dialogue between the ethnographic visions of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century African photography and engagements with the archive by contemporary artists. Presenting an extraordinary range of portraits, cartes de visite, postcards and album pages from Southern and Eastern Africa, as well as recent photography and video art, the catalogue includes orginal thematic essays by leading art historians, anthropologists and cultural critics.
Invite poster folded as postcard
Exhibition catalogue
Posters in Ulm, germany
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