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Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa/ (Record no. 6050)

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International Standard Book Number 9781478003922
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Title Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa/
Statement of responsibility, etc. Jennifer Bajorek
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Duke University Press;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2020
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Extent 352p;
Dimensions 26x18cm
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Summary, etc. 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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Language note English
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Critical documentation
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Topical term or geographic name entry element TR624-835 Technology- Applied Photography
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    Library of Congress Classification     Technology- Photography, Cinematography, Electronic Media SAF Reference Library Photography Gallery 10/21/2025   TR624-835 59.212 6050 10/21/2025 10/21/2025 Book

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