Snapshots of freedom : street photography in Cape Town from the 1930s to the 1980s
dc.contributor.author | O’Connell, Siona | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-03T08:35:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-08-03T08:35:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this article, I look at the “ordinary” (or “everyday”) archive of the racially oppressed, viewing it as an entry point into apartheid afterlives, while arguing for a rethinking of humanness and freedom after racial oppression. I consider the photographs produced by “Movie Snaps” – a street photographic studio of Cape Town, South Africa, that operated between the 1930s and the 1980s – and suggest that looking to previously marginalised narratives can offer insight into larger questions of self-representation, belonging and freedom. The contents of this article are based on a larger research project on forced removals in Cape Town, out of which several exhibitions and two documentary films have been produced to date. | en_ZA |
dc.description.department | Historical and Heritage Studies | en_ZA |
dc.description.librarian | am2018 | en_ZA |
dc.description.uri | http://www.imageandtext.up.ac.za | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | O'Connell, S. 2017, 'Snapshots of freedom : street photography in Cape Town from the 1930s to the 1980s', Image and Text, no. 29, pp. 219-234. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.issn | 1020-1497 (online) | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66073 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts | en_ZA |
dc.rights | University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Apartheid | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Forced removals | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Photography | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Archive | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Freedom | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Representation | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Street photography | en_ZA |
dc.title | Snapshots of freedom : street photography in Cape Town from the 1930s to the 1980s | en_ZA |
dc.type | Article | en_ZA |