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Latest Feature: Bonani Africa 2010 Festival of Photography
Documentary photography in Africa is alive and kicking...
The euphoria of the 2010 Fifa World Cup has engulfed South Africa with the country uniting behind its national flag. With World Cup fever rising, the country has adopted ‘a new national symbol’ – the noisy vuvuzela. However, it is the country’s social documentary photographers who, as usual, have added a sobering picture of our world.
South African History Online’s Bonani Africa 2010 Festival of Photography has brought together 52 of South Africa’s leading and young photographers who not only provide the world with a critical look at the reality of Mzanzi (South Africa) but a fascinating look at the state of contemporary South African documentary photography ... read more
- History of Afrapix - the South African anti apartheid Documentary Photography Collective in the 1980s.
- Towards a people's culture: Art and resistance under Apartheid
- Rock art
- South African Society of Artists and its exhibitiors, 1902-1950
- New Group: Artists collective 1937-1953
- The neglected tradition: Towards a New History of South African Art (1930 - 1988)
- Kwazulu-Natal Artists from the 1970s & 1980s
- South African Association of Art Historians (founded 1984)
- List of Artists
