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Jürg Schneider

Affiliated researcher

  • Centre for African Studies

    University of Basel

Biography

Jürg Schneider is a historian and affiliated researcher at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His teaching, writing and curatorial activities are centred on the African continent's rich photographic heritage and those who created it, with a particular focus on West and Central Africa. He is a co-founder of African Photography Initiatives, an organisation working in and with photo archives in Africa.

Links

https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/

http://african-photography-initiatives.org/

Article

Jürg Schneider
en

Circulating West-African Photographs in the Atlantic Visualscape

In the second half of the 19th century, photographs circulated widely in a triangular region...