Unfixed : Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa /
"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 Sene...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2020.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: At least two histories of liberation
- From early days to Kodak swag
- West African avant-gardes?
- Photography and decolonial imagination
- Note on geography, spelling, and language
- Part 1. What makes a popular photography?
- Ch. 1: Ça bousculait! (It was happening!)
- Early luminaries
- Numbers of prints, darkroom schedules, the interval
- What's in an angle?
- Vaccinostyl(e)
- Economic thresholds
- Methodological reflection: Where is photography's field?
- Ch. 2: Wild circulation: photography as urban media
- From Saint-Louis, with love
- Vernacular cosmopolitanism and media infrastructure
- They did it?by photo?
- Tinkers, tailors: towards an expanded intermediality
- Undoing the colonial backdrop
- The road to Ouidah' and the moon
- Ch. 3: Decolonizing print culture: the example of Bingo
- Paris on the front page
- Africa on the cover
- Politics/anti-politics of representation
- Towards a transcolonial visual public
- Independence, pan-Africanism, and consumer marketing
- Know your African leaders
- Part 2. Republic of images
- Ch. 4: Africanizing political photography
- Censorship, political and other
- Protectionism and colonial markets
- State formation and the documentary impulse
- Aspirational research
- Proto-political images
- Methodological reflection: Endangered archives in the postcolony
- Ch. 5: The pleasures of state-sponsored photography
- The citizen stops for a moment
- The gift of electric light late at night
- Two ears, six copies
- Not everyone was happy
- Bureaucratic inspiration
- Heterogeneous visualities and the "ideal" image
- Ch. 6: African futures, lost and found
- Federation and non-alignment
- Visual histories under pressure
- Stirring it up (threats and promises).