Another short notice with some seats left mainly for those in the UK...
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You are warmly invited to the book launch of:
Defiant Images: Photography and Apartheid South Africa by Darren Newbury
Published by University of South Africa (UNISA) Press
THURSDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2010 (6.30pm)
HOST Gallery, 1 Honduras Street, London, EC1Y 0TH
Refreshments will be available at 6.30pm followed by short talks from the author and guest speaker Professor Amanda Hopkinson (University of East Anglia)
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“This book is much more than just a discourse on photography in the land of apartheid. And it goes well beyond sophisticated debate on the artistic merits of images. While keeping the lens trained on the evolution of photography it plunges the reader into a sharp and evocative socio-cultural history of a country in deep conflict.” – From the Foreword by Albie Sachs
About the book
Defiant Images is the first critical study of photography in apartheid South Africa and a significant contribution to research on documentary photography in the twentieth century. The chapter on Ernest Cole is the first major account of the life and work of one of Africa’s most important photographers. Other chapters contribute to an understanding of the photographers Constance Stuart Larrabee and Leon Levson, the Drum magazine school of photography and the struggle photography of the 1980s.
Defiant Images develops a critical historical method for engaging with photographs of South Africa during the apartheid period, considering the photographs in their original contexts and their relationship to the politics of the time, listening to the voices of the photographers to try and understand how they viewed the work they were doing, and examining the place of photography in a post-apartheid era.
Defiant Images is based on substantial primary research, including interviews with photographers, editors and curators, and analysis of photographs held in collections and displayed in museums. The book is extensively illustrated, with close discussion of many photographs.
Chapters:
1. An African Pageant: Between Native Studies and Social Documentary
2. ‘A Fine Thing’: 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
345 + xxiii pages
144 black & white illustrations
Laminated softcover
ISBN 978-1-86888-523-7
Available from:
Eurospan Bookstore (UK/Europe)
http://www.eurospanbookstore.com/
ISBS (US)
http://www.isbs.com/
UNISA Press (Rest of World)
http://www.unisa.ac.za/defiant-images
Book extract available at:
http://bcu.academia.edu/DarrenNewbury/Books
http://www.unisa.ac.za/defiant-images
About the author
Darren Newbury is Professor of Photography at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham City University. He is also current editor of the international journal Visual Studies. Contact: [log in to unmask]
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David Durling FDRS PhD http://durling.tel
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