PHOTOGRAPHY IN AND OUT OF AFRICA: Iterations with difference

389pp., b/w illus., paperback, Reprint, Routledge, Abingdon & New York, (2016) 2018

ISBN: 9780367023645

Originally published in Social Dynamics, volume 40,  issue 1, March 2014.

A collection of essays on the history of photography in South Africa, and including several other African contries. Through analyses of particular photographs and photographic archives, the authors trace how photographs have been used both to affirm colonial worldviews and to disrupt and critique such forms of power.

Contributions include:

"Of bodies captured: the visual representation of the Paarl march and Poqo in apartheid South Africa" by Bianca van Laun

"Forward, Ever Forward: a reading of Robert Harris, Photographic Album of South African Scenery, Port Elizabeth, c.1880–1886" by Michael Godby

"Mining photographs: David Goldblatt’s On the Mines" by Sally Gaule

‘‘'I never didn’t take a picture’: on photojournalism and conflict – an interview with Greg Marinovich" by Paul Weinberg and Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk

"An interview with George Hallett" by John Edwin Mason

"From salons to the native reserve: reformulating the ‘native question' through pictorial photography in 1950s South Africa" by Phindezwa Mnyaka

"Social documentary and personal investigations in contemporary South African photography: Tracey Derrick’s ‘One in Nine’ series" by Meghan Kirkwood.

"Fractured compounds: photographing post-apartheid compounds and hostels" by Svea Josephy

"The aftermath of oppression: in search of resolution through family photographs of the forcibly removed of District Six, Cape Town" by Siona O’Connell.

Kylie Thomas is a research fellow at the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice, University of the Free State. She is the author of Impossible Mourning: HIV/AIDS and Visuality After Apartheid (2013).

Louise Green is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at Stellenbosch University.