Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa Bajorek Jennifer
Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa Bajorek Jennifer In Unfixed Jennifer Bajorek traces the relationship between photography and decolonial political imagination in…
Specifikacia Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa Bajorek Jennifer
Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa Bajorek Jennifer
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. 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. 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.
In delineating how west Africans' embrace of photography was associated with and helped spur the
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