Photographic Afterlives
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Algerian women
Author_Katarzyna Falecka
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collage
decolonisation
Dennis Adams
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family history
forthcoming
identity photographs
installation
Magiciens de la terre
Marc Garanger
Marwa Arsanios
migration
military archives
Mohamed Kouaci
mugshot
Nadja Makhlouf
oral history
photobooks
postcolonial France
private archives
revolutionary photographer
video art
women artists
Zineb Sedira
Product details
- ISBN 9781526181695
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Photographic afterlives explores the cultural, social and political contexts in which photographs from the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) emerge in contemporary art and photobooks. It situates these practices against the backdrop of the wider archival turn in the humanities and the ongoing debates about archives in Algeria. Tracing the movement of historical photographs across multiple spaces, the book unravels the subsequent layers of meaning accrued by these images. It argues that as much as archival contemporary art performs an inquiry into the past, it equally speaks volumes about the distinct and ever-shifting needs of the present. Focused on the work of artists and photographers who excavate side-lined histories of the war, remediate well-known narratives and imagine histories that cannot be recovered from archives, Photographic afterlives shows the great potential of archives of decolonisation.
Katarzyna Falecka is a Lecturer in Art History at Newcastle University
