TY - BOOK ID - 64859150 TI - Unfixed : photography and decolonial imagination in West Africa PY - 2020 SN - 9781478003663 1478003669 9781478003922 1478003928 1478004584 PB - Durham (N.C.): Duke university press, DB - UniCat KW - Photography KW - #SBIB:39A5 KW - #SBIB:39A73 KW - Political aspects KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning KW - Etnografie: Afrika KW - fotografie KW - fotografiegeschiedenis KW - portretfotografie KW - reportagefotografie KW - fotojournalistiek KW - Afrika KW - dekolonisatie KW - Senegal KW - Benin KW - twintigste eeuw KW - fotografie en politiek KW - fotografie en samenleving KW - 77.038 KW - 77.038(6) KW - Fotografie ; 1950 - 2000 ; Afrika KW - 77.038(66) KW - 77.044 KW - Fotografie ; Afrika ; 2de helft 20ste eeuw KW - Dekolonisatie KW - Fotografie en politiek KW - Fotografie en maatschappij KW - Fotografie ; 1950 - 2000 ; West-Afrika KW - Fotografie ; reportage-opnamen KW - Photography - Political aspects - Africa, French-speaking West - History - 20th century KW - Photography - Social aspects - Africa, French-speaking West - History - 20th century UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:64859150 AB - "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"-- ER -