EXPLORATION, CONQUEST & EXOTICISM

Early photo albums (1850s-1880s)

‘Dark Africa’ and the beginnings of the ‘scramble’ (1880s-1890s)
J.A. da Cunha Moraes, Africa Occidental – Album Photográphico e Descriptivo (1885-88)

Civilization. (Scientific) exploration and military conquest: the first generation of popular illustrated photobooks  Scientific books and military books(1890s-1910s)
Franz Thonner, Im afrikanischen Urwald: Meine Reise nach dem Kongo und der Mongalla im Jahre 1896 (1896) 
Lt. Charles Lemaire, Voyage au Congo (1897)

Christianity. Early mission books (1890s-1900s)
W. Taylor, Africa Illustrated: Scenes from Daily Life on the Dark Continent (1895)

Commerce. Establishing rule and the consolidation of the colonial state (1890s-1914)
Various photographers, L’État indépendant du Congo. – Documents sur le pays et ses habitants (1904)

Infrastructure and corporate books (1890s-1910s) 
Various photographers, Inauguration de la Ligne de Matadi au Stanley Pool Juin-Aout 1898 (1898)

Mass consumption souvenir books; the extended postal card (1890s-1920s)
J. and M. Lazarus, A Souvenir of Lourenço Marques. An album of views of the town (1901)

Visual Documentation Modern Warfare / Final stage of military control (1900s-1910s)
Unknown, Album Portfolio della Guerra Italo-Turca 1911-1912 per la Conquista della Libia (1913)

The  First World War (1914-1918)  
Otto Stiehl, Unsere Feinde. 96 Charakterköpfe aus deutschen Kriegsgefangenenlagern (1916)

Interbellum: Apogee of colonialism (1920s-1940s)  
Various photographers, Le Miroir du Congo (1929)
Various photographers, Negro Types (1930)
Fernando Mouta, Etnografia Angolana (1933)
Walker Evans, African Negro Art (1935)

The Second World War
Captain A. G. Dickson, A spear for freedom (1942)

THE APOGEE & DECLINE OF COLONIALISM

The myth Heyday and swansong of colonialism (1950s-1960s)
R.-G. Mischkind, Lumière d’Afrique (1948)
Alain Delapraz, M’Bolo (1955)

The rise of Apartheid in South Africa (1940s-1960s)
Dan Weiner, South Africa in Transition (1956)

INDEPENDENCE

Independence – politics and propaganda in the New Nation States (1960s-1980s) 
Lionel Birch, Ghana is born (1958)
Georges Prunet, Gabon Panorama (1970)

Black Pride – (Forced) Return to roots 
Diby Yao Christophe, Du Twist à Cocody (1972)
Various photographers, Festac ’77 (1977)

The final method of resistance – armed struggle in Southern Africa (1950s-1990s)
Peter Magubane, Soweto (1978)

Romanticism versus Pessimism, recurring colonial tropes (1950s-1990s)
Gilles Caron, La Mort du Biafra! (1968)
Sergej Kuli, Am Horn von Afrika (1983)

Epilogue: Towards the 21st Century. Africa Rising, New Approaches (1990s-2020s)
Yto Barrada, A Life Full of Holes. The Strait Project (2005)