Edited by Catarina Boieiro and Raquel Schefer, “Generalized Visual Resistance: Photobooks and Liberation Movements” 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. It contextualizes the precise geopolitical and cultural circumstances of their production, and reconstructs the material history, motifs and forms of the transnational Liberation aesthetics of the period, extensively illustrated with excerpts from various photobooks currently out of print.

With a foreword by Miguel de Barros, an introductory essay by the editors, unpublished texts by researchers Drew Thompson and Lúcia Ramos Monteiro, and newly commissioned interviews with photographers and filmmakers Augusta Conchiglia and Moira Forjaz.

Project funded by República Portuguesa – Cultura and DGArtes - Direção-Geral das Artes, under the partnership support program “Arte pela Democracia.” With the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation – Delegation in France; Galerias Municipais de Lisboa | EGEAC; Institut pour la Photographie; and Camões – Centro Cultural Português in Paris.