SUMMARY "Featuring approximately 250 works by over thirty artists from across the African continent, Snap Judgements presents a range of highly individual artistic responses to the unprecedented changes now taking place in Africa and provides new insight into the increasing role of the visual arts within the global cultural community. In addition to introducing audiences to the multiple imaginations and voices that constitute today's African artists, the book explores ways that this body of photo-based art arises from the dialectic of African aesthetic values and Western influences.

CONTENTS New positions in contemporary African photography -- Okwui Enwezor -- Pt. 1. uses of Afro-pessimism -- Pt. 2. Contemporary African art and globalization -- Pt. 3. analytical impulse in contemporary African photography -- Plates -- After in/sight : ten years of exhibiting contemporary African photography /