Light on Darkness?

<DIV>In its earliest days photography was seen as depicting its subjects with such objectivity as to be inherently free of ideological bias. Today we are rightly more skeptical -- at least most of the time. When it comes to photography from the past we tend to set some of our skepticism aside. But should we?<br><br> In <I>Light on Darkness?</I> T. Jack Thompson a leading historian of African Christianity revisits the body of photography generated by British missionaries to sub-Saharan Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and demonstrates that much more is going on in these images than meets the eye. This volume offers a careful reassessment of missionary photographers their photographs and their African and European audiences. Several dozen fascinating photographs from the period are included.</DIV>