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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 imagerythrough studio portraiture, bureaucratic ID cards, political reportage and photojournalism, magazines, and moreprovided 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 Africaone that theorizes photographys capacity for doing decolonial work.

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PHOTOGRAPHYAND DECOLONIAL IMAGINATION IN WESTAFRICA

JenniferBajorek

Duke University PressDurham and London2020

2020 Duke University Press

All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper

Designed by Drew Sisk

Typeset in Portrait, Folio, and Univers by Westchester Publishing Services

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Bajorek, Jennifer, author.

Title: Unfixed : photography and decolonial imagination in West Africa / Jennifer Bajorek.

Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019016282 (print)

LCCN 2019980319 (ebook)

ISBN 9781478003663 (hardcover)

ISBN 9781478003922 (paperback)

ISBN 9781478004585 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH : PhotographyPolitical aspectsAfrica, French-speaking WestHistory20th century. | PhotographySocial aspectsAfrica, French-speaking WestHistory20th century.

Classification: LCC TR 119. F 83 B 356 2020 (print) | LCC TR 119. F 83 (ebook) | DDC 770.0966/0917541--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019016282

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019980319

Cover art: ID -card photograph of an unidentified woman. Photograph: Joseph Mose Agbodjlou. Porto-Novo, Benin, 1970s. Courtesy of Lonce Agbodjlou.

Frontispiece: Portrait, woman in hitchhiker pose. Photograph: Zinsou Cosme Dossa, Porto-Novo, Benin, ca. 1962. Modern print made by Lonce Agbodjlou with the photographers permission. Courtesy of the family of Zinsou Cosme Dossa.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE SUPPORT OF HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE AND THE CREATIVE CAPITAL/WARHOL FOUNDATION ARTS WRITERS GRANT PROGRAM. PUBLICATION OF THIS BOOK HAS BEEN AIDED BY A GRANT FROM THE MILLARD MEISS PUBLICATION FUND OF CAA.

CONTENTS Portrait woman in hitchhiker pose by Zinsou Cosme Dossa - photo 3
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Portrait, woman in hitchhiker pose, by Zinsou Cosme Dossa, Porto-Novo, Benin, ca. 1962 ii

Portrait of Khady Ndoye, printed on the diagonal, by unknown photographer, Dakar, Senegal, late 1950s 2

Digitized contact prints from the studio of Beno t Adjovi, Cotonou, Benin, late 1960s, early 1970s

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