Photography in the Great War: The Ethics of Emerging Medical Collections from the Great War

remarkable new readings here. The book’s final chapter is a testament to what can happen when neither portraiture nor photography is confined to its most narrow interpretation, as a conduit only of colonial ideology in Africa. This material and the readings it generates constitute Dell’s most persuasive argument for repositioning photographic portraiture as central to the ongoing re-evaluation of the colonial imaginary. It is here that the exchange promised by the title, between France and Africa, can perhaps be glimpsed for the first time.