Is This Picture Not a Proof
Photojournalism and Anti-Colonial Politics in Lagos, 1930s-1950s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2727689 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olubukola A Gbadegesin (0009-0001-5173-2215, Saint Louis University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 227-251 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/asr.2025.10058 |
| OpenAlex | W4413381998 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
African newspapers have been the subject of scrutiny from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. However, comparably little attention has been paid to the early visual archives produced by these presses. This essay mines the pages of West African Pilot and other newspapers to explore the genesis of the practice and profession of press photography in Lagos, Nigeria. Over the course of three defining historical moments, press photographs became a record and consequence of the ways that professional, legal, and political contours of visual freedoms were defined in an increasingly anti-colonial city and nation-state
Art · Colonialism · Photography · Photojournalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
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Education or Manipulation? Labour, Democracy, and the Popular Press in Interwar Britain
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An Outline History of Photography in Africa to ca. 1940
Awo
The Uneven Citizenry of Photography
The politics of portrait photographs in southern Nigerian newspapers, 1945-1954
The Flying Newspapermen and the Time-Space of Late Colonial Nigeria
| Highly cited | No |
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