Unfixed

Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa

Jennifer Bajorek (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0392-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Jennifer Bajorek is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Visual Studies at Hampshire College and Research Associate in the VIAD Research Centre, in the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture at the University of Johannesburg. She is also author of Counterfeit Capital: Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony.

List of Illustrations vii
A Note on Geography, Spelling, and Language xiii
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction. At Least Two Histories of Liberation 1
Part I. What Makes a Popular Photography?
1. Ça bousculait! (It Was Happening!) 41
2. Wild Circulation: Photography as Urban Media 83
3. Decolonizing Print Culture: The Example of Bingo 117
Part II. Republic of Images
4. Africanizing Political Photography 163
5. The Pleasures of State-Sponsored Photography 203
6. African Futures, Lost and Found 240
Notes 265
Bibliography 307
Index 319

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2020
Zusatzinfo	132 illustrations, incl. 30 in color
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	862 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4780-0392-8 / 1478003928
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0392-2 / 9781478003922
Zustand	Neuware