Frelimo

Title: Frelimo

Photographer(s): Tadahiro Ogawa

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Publisher(s): The Sun, Tokyo, Japan

Year: 1973

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Language(s): Japanese

Pages: 80

Size: 21 x 28 cm

Binding: Softcover

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Print: Printed in Japan

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Mozambique,1973

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The book reveals how the use of photography by the colonial state and the liberation movement overlapped, and the role that photography played in the transition of power from colonialism to independence.Photographers and their images were critical to the making of Mozambique, first as a colony of Portugal and then as independent nation at war with apartheid in South Africa. When the Mozambique Liberation Front came to power, it invested substantial human and financial resources in institutional structures involving photography, and used them to insert the nation into global debates over photography's use. The materiality of the photographs created had effects that neither the colonial nor postcolonial state could have imagined.