Go to AfricaBib home

Go to AfricaBib home Africana Periodical Literature Go to database home

bibliographic database
Line
Previous page New search

The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here

Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:Mungo Murray Chisuse and the early history of photography in Malawi
Author:McCracken, JohnISNI
Year:2008
Periodical:The Society of Malawi Journal
Volume:61
Issue:2
Pages:1-18
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs., ills.
Geographic terms:Malawi
Central Africa
Subjects:photography
colonial history
biographies (form)
History, Archaeology
Photography--History
Photographers--Malawi--Biography
Chisuse, Mungo Murray
Malawi--History
About person:Mungo Murray Chisuse
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/29779264
Abstract:No portrait in Malawi is better known today than that of the image of John Chilembwe that stares out from all Malawian banknotes. Yet, Mungo Murray Chisuse, the photographer upon whose portrait the image on the banknotes is based, is virtually unknown. This article redresses the balance by setting out the evidence currently available on Chisuse's career and his emergence not only as the first African photographer in Malawi but also as the finest portrait photographer ever to have worked in the country. One element of the story concerns the tangled fate of the first generation of Malawian Christians nurtured by the Scottish Presbyterian, David Clement Scott, at the Blantyre Mission. The second focuses on the enthusiasm with which Europeans of all types, missionaries, settlers and administrators, took to the new craze for photography. Mungo Murray Chisuse was in an important sense a pioneer, making images of a type that had never before been made in colonial Malawi. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
Views
Cover