Through the Empires Eyes:

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" Through the Empires Eyes: "
Amanda du Preez

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082802
Doc. No	:	LA126431
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157430108X376618‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Amanda du Preez
Title & Author	:	Through the Empires Eyes: [Article] : Engaging the Gaze\ Amanda du Preez
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and Theology
Date	:	2008
Volume/ Issue Number	:	15/3-4
Page No	:	427–446
Abstract	:	The empire of visuality is said to have eyes everywhere, but what are the consequences for embodied locality in terms of this omnipresence? How do the objects that fall prey to the gaze of the empire engage with its petrifying gaze? By exploring the photography of the Brazilian Mário de Andrade, the Frenchman Marc Garanger and the South African photographer Santu Mofokeng, the challenge to the gaze of the empire is discussed. The Barthesian distinction between the categories of studium and punctum is utilised to unpack the possibilities of embodied localities that confront and engage the gaze of the empire differently.
Descriptor	:	BARTHES
Descriptor	:	CAMERA
Descriptor	:	COLONIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Descriptor	:	EMPIRE
Descriptor	:	GAZE
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157430108X376618‬