Defiant images : photography and apartheid South Africa / Darren Newbury ; foreword by Albie Sachs.

• 1. An African Pageant: Between Native Studies and Social Documentary -- 2. 'A FineThing': The African Drum -- 3. Johannesburg Lunch-hour: Photographic Humanism and the Social Vision of Drum -- 4. An Unalterable Blackness: Ernest Cole's House of Bondage -- 5. An Aesthetic of Fists and Flags: Struggle Photography -- 6 Lest We Forget: Photography and the Presentation of History in the Post-apartheid Museum.

• "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 photographers to try and understand how they viewed the work they were doing, and examines the place of photography in a post-apartheid 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. 

Ämnesord

Apartheid  -- South Africa -- Pictorial works. (LCSH)

Documentary photography  -- South Africa. (LCSH)

Photojournalism  -- South Africa. (LCSH)

Government, Resistance to  -- South Africa -- Pictorial works. (LCSH)

Blacks  -- South Africa -- Politics and government -- Pictorial works. (LCSH)

South Africa  -- History -- Pictorial works. (LCSH)