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Unfixed - Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa (Paperback)
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Unfixed - Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa (Paperback)
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In Unfixed Jennifer Bajorek traces the relationship between
photography and decolonial political imagination in Francophone
west Africa in the years immediately leading up to and following
independence from French colonial rule in 1960. Focusing on images
created by photographers based in Senegal and Benin, Bajorek draws
on formal analyses of images and ethnographic fieldwork with
photographers to show how photography not only reflected but also
actively contributed to social and political change. The
proliferation of photographic imagery-through studio portraiture,
bureaucratic ID cards, political reportage and photojournalism,
magazines, and more-provided the means for west Africans to express
their experiences, shape public and political discourse, and
reimagine their world. In delineating how west Africans' embrace of
photography was associated with and helped spur the democratization
of political participation and the development of labor and
liberation movements, Bajorek tells a new history of photography in
west Africa-one that theorizes photography's capacity for doing
decolonial work.
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