Photography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
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INTRODUCTION |
Photography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
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CHAPTER ONE |
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship ? Challenges for Resistance Photographers...
1987 Photographic exhibition of children as victims of, and participants in, the struggle for freedom. Offset litho poster produced by Afrapix Black and red
The following paper seeks to better understand how photographs have been used in South Africa as ideological and consequently political weaponry. Questions I will pose include; how has the colonial state employed photographic imagery to construct and preserve white hegemony? How have people opposed to exploitative white supremacy utilized photography to undermine the photographic discourse created by the State, and the racist ideology that discourse supports? What countermeasures has the State engaged in to stifle photographic subversion? How have resistance photographers circumvented those countermeasures? And how did resistance photography contribute to the liberation struggle? ... MORE
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CHAPTER TWO |
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
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CHAPTER THREE |
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
