Life Itself

Photography and South Africa

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Charting the photographic history of a country from colonialism to democracy, from the early European photographers to work today by young South Africans, Life Itself explores how people, events and places have been depicted in photographic images over the decades. Featuring images from the heyday of Drum magazine and Black emergence to Peter Magubane’s Soweto uprising pictures, David Goldblatt’s In Boksburg to the photographers' collective Afrapix and the struggles for freedom, the book concludes with post-apartheid documentary and art photography in the work of Andrew Tshabangu, Lindokuhle Sobekwa and others. Life Itself helps to fill a gap in our understanding of the role of the camera in South African society over time. Superbly illustrated, it is accessibly written for anyone curious about the visual representation of the nation.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-01
Mått190 x 250 x 24 mm
Vikt1 018 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781836390428

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Introduction 1 Photographic Beginnings: Colonial Cultures and Topographical (Mis-)Representations, 1834–19102 Photographic Transitions: Old Tropes and Modernist Perspectives,1910–503 New Observations: Drum Photography and the SowetoUprising, 1950–784 Struggle Photography: Quiet Social Moments and Frontline Activism,1978–945 Photographic Situations: Conceptions of Legacies and Contemporary Realities,1994–2020 ReferencesBibliographyAcknowledgementsPhoto AcknowledgementsIndex

"Life Itself is likely to be the most important book ever published on the history of South African photography. Simon A. Clarke’s text is elucidating and the well-chosen photographs for the book are aesthetic and documentary at the same time." - Roger Ballen, artist/photographer"Throughout Clarke’s photographic history of struggle is inserted contextual writing telling the terrible story of the development of apartheid and its increasing repression . . . Clarke approaches the subject with a critical and historical lens, analysing photography as both an artistic expression and a socio-political tool . . . an outstanding study of how images have shaped narratives of identity, resistance and power in South Africa." - Bob Newland, Morning Star