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Daniel Foliard
@DFoliard
Prof., Université de Paris, LARCA @ProjectEycon @LarcaParis @Univ_Paris
Nov 17, 2022 • 18 tweets • 8 min read
My book “The Violence of Colonial Photography” publ. by @ManchesterUP is out . It is, in many ways, an extensive caption for the photo reproduced on its cover. A thread on this image, and the book. This print is held by Marguerite Durand library (Paris). Image 1/It was shot in the early 1890s in the French Sudan (Mali) by Raymonde Bonnetain who liked to experiment with the camera. She traveled with Paul Bonnetain, her husband, a colonial administrator. The girl in the picture is her daughter Renée, in her early teens. « Mme Bonnetain en tenue mi...