Christraud M. Geary (National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC)

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Christraud M. Geary
Curator
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives
National Museum of African Art
Smithsonian Institution
950 Independence Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20024  USA

phone:  (202) 357-4600 x 280
fax:    (202) 357-4879
e-mail: cgeary@nmafa.si.edu



Research interests:

History of photography in Africa; African art, in particular Cameroon.


Selected recent publications:

2002

Forthcoming: In and Out of Focus: Images from Central Africa,1885-1960.
Washington D.C. and London (National Museum of African Art and Wilson 
Publishers)
 
"Views from Outside and Inside: Representations of Madagascar and the
Malagasy, 1648-1935." In Objects as Envoys: Cloth, Imagery and Diplomacy
in Madagascar, Christine Kreamer and Sarah Fee (eds.)  Seattle (University
of Washington Press), 148-179.

1998

Delivering Views:  Distant Cultures in Early Postcards.  Co-edited with 
Virginia Webb. Washington, D.C.  (Smithsonian Institution Press)