Africa in Focus: Using Photographs in Historical Research

Here you’ll go though the different steps of working with photographs, specifically historical photographs taken in Africa.

Photographs, like any historial material, must be identified, critically analyzed, and interpreted. And don’t forget your citations for photographs!


In the training exercises here, you will practice some of the key steps of working with photographs, with examples drawn from historical photographs from Africa.

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Bildinhalt betrachten

Fotografie datieren

Metadaten betrachten

Quellen nachweisen

Bilder interpretieren