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 BaCuratorial Research and Edition: Catarina Boieiro, Raquel ScheferEditorial Coordination: Nuno da LuzContributions: Miguel de Barros, Lúcia Ramos Monteiro, Drew Thompson, Augusta Conchiglia, Moira ForjazTranslation: Amarante Abramovici, Miguel CardosoDesign: Furtado ScheferPublished by ATLAS, LisboaInternational Distribution: Les presses du réel, DijonProject 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.
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