Life Itself
Autor Simon A. Clarkeen Limba Engleză Hardback – feb 2025
From colonialism to democracy, Life Itself offers a comprehensive overview of South Africa’s photographic history. 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, this 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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781836390428
ISBN-10: 1836390424
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 100 color plates, 50 halftones
Dimensiuni: 190 x 253 x 25 mm
Greutate: 1.04 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
ISBN-10: 1836390424
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 100 color plates, 50 halftones
Dimensiuni: 190 x 253 x 25 mm
Greutate: 1.04 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Notă biografică
Simon A. Clarke is a senior lecturer at Falmouth University. His previous books include Print: Fashion, Interiors, Art.
Cuprins
Introduction 1 Photographic Beginnings: Colonial Cultures and Topographical (Mis-) Representations, 1834–1910 2 Photographic Transitions: Old Tropes and Modernist Perspectives, 1910–50 3 New Observations: Drum Photography and the Soweto Uprising, 1950–78 4 Struggle Photography: Quiet Social Moments and Frontline Activism, 1978–94 5 Photographic Situations: Conceptions of Legacies and Contemporary Realities, 1994–2020 References Bibliography Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index
Recenzii
"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."
“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.”