Visualizing Empire Shines Light on the Visual Culture of French Colonialism

Visualizing Empire: Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation offers an engaging and often revelatory analysis of visual materials produced by the French government and commercial enterprises to promote France’s colonial project both at home and abroad. Edited by U.S.-based scholars Rebecca Peabody, Steven Nelson, and Dominic Thomas, the volume focuses on the archive of imperial ephemera purchased by the Getty Research Institute in 1997 from the Association Connaissance de l’Histoire de l’Afrique Contemporaine (Knowledge of the History of Contemporary Africa Association).…