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Photography as art: characterizing Dotun Okubanjo as a photographer

This paper classifies and analyses the creative pictures of one of Nigeria's foremost photographers with formal western training in photography. Dotun Okubanjo used his photographs of the late fifties and early sixties to impact society, then as now. His personal story exemplifies the changing statu...

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520 |a This paper classifies and analyses the creative pictures of one of Nigeria's foremost photographers with formal western training in photography. Dotun Okubanjo used his photographs of the late fifties and early sixties to impact society, then as now. His personal story exemplifies the changing status of the profession within the society thus providing useful insights to the political and social economy of the period. Dotun Okubanjo's photographs eventually catch up with the idea of, and that photography itself is a creative, rather than a mechanistic process simply because it is a product of a technological innovation. Dotun Okubanjo's photographs are incontrovertibly the, product of the creative manipulation of the camera, the creative selection of his .subjects and the creative production of the individual photographs themselves. He shot photographs only in black and white 
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024 8 |a Journal of Environment and Culture 11(2), December 2014. Pp. 15 - 29 
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