Contributions

  • Sachs, Albie, 1935- - Contributor

Publication

2009 - Unisa Press, Pretoria

Language

English

Word Count

86,250 words, Guess

Page Count

345 pages

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Classifications

  • DDC305.800968
  • LCCDT1757 .N39 2009

Description

"Photography is often believed to witness history or reflect society, but such perspectives fail to account for the complex ways in which photographs get made and seen, and the variety of motivations and social and political factors that shape the vision of the world that photographs provide. This book develops a critical historical method for engaging with photographs of South Africa during the apartheid period. The author looks closely at the photographs in their original contexts and their relationship to the politics of the time, listens to the voices of the photographers to try and understand how they viewed the work they were doing, and examines the place of photography in a postapartheid era. Based on interviews with photographers, editors and curators, and through the analysis of photographs held in collections and displayed in museums, this research addresses the significance of photography in South Africa during the second half of the twentieth century"--Cover.

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