Generalized Visual Resistance: Photobooks and Liberation Movements

Edited by Catarina Boieiro and Raquel Schefer, this trilingual publication brings together and revisits a set of photobooks produced between the 1960s and 1980s, in the context of anti-colonial Liberation struggles and the early years of independence in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and Cape Verde.

“This publication retrieves erased visual memories, confronts historical revisionism, and reinscribes aesthetic devices in counter-hegemonic strategies of Liberation; through the aesthetic-political practice of reimagination, reinvention and reexistence.”
— Mamadou Ba

Curatorial Research and Edition: Catarina Boieiro, Raquel Schefer
Editorial Coordination: Nuno da Luz
Contributions: Miguel de Barros, Lúcia Ramos Monteiro, Drew Thompson, Augusta Conchiglia, Moira Forjaz
Translation: Amarante Abramovici, Miguel Cardoso
Design: Furtado Schefer
Published by ATLAS, Lisboa
International Distribution: Les presses du réel, Dijon
Project funded by República Portuguesa – Cultura and DGArtes - Direção-Geral das Artes, Arte pela Democracia 2023.
Support: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation – Delegation in France; Galerias Municipais de Lisboa | EGEAC; Institut pour la Photographie; and Camões – Centro Cultural Português in Paris.