DPI Professor Isolde Brielmaier’s New Book reflects on post-colonial studies and theories

Friday, Sep 2, 2022

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Isolde Brielmaier ​​I Am Sparkling: N.V. Parekh and His Portrait Studio Clients (Damiani, 2022)

DPI Professor Isolde Brielmaier's new book, I Am Sparkling: N.V. Parekh and His Portrait Studio Clients: Mombasa, Kenya, 1940-1980, offers a counter-narrative to engaging with African photographic archives as well as photographic histories at large.

The Brooklyn Rail's Noa Wynn details the book in her latest review.