Generalized Visual Resistance – Photobooks and Liberation Movements
Catarina Boieiro, Raquel Schefer
$58.23
- Softcover
- 288 pages
- 235 x 310 mm
- ISBN 9789895350629
- English, French, Portuguese
- 2025
Generalized Visual Resistance: Photobooks and Liberation Movements, edited by Catarina Boieiro and Raquel Schefer, revisits 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.
Originating from a research project begun in 2018, the publication gathers an unprecedented visual archive of militant print culture - photobooks, posters, magazines, and artworks - revealing how images became tools of emancipation and political transformation. This trilingual volume (Portuguese, French, English) includes essays by the editors, Drew Thompson, and Lúcia Ramos Monteiro; a reprint of FRELIMO’s 1971 speech The Growth of a New Culture; and new interviews with Augusta Conchiglia and Moira Forjaz.
Designed by Furtado Schefer, the book extends the dialogue between anti-colonial aesthetics and contemporary visual culture.







