Snapshots of freedom : street photography in Cape Town from the 1930s to the 1980s

dc.contributor.authorO’Connell, Siona
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-03T08:35:19Z
dc.date.available2018-08-03T08:35:19Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractIn 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.departmentHistorical and Heritage Studiesen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2018en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.imageandtext.up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationO'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.issn1020-1497 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/66073
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoria, Department of Visual Artsen_ZA
dc.rightsUniversity of Pretoria, Department of Visual Artsen_ZA
dc.subjectApartheiden_ZA
dc.subjectForced removalsen_ZA
dc.subjectPhotographyen_ZA
dc.subjectArchiveen_ZA
dc.subjectFreedomen_ZA
dc.subjectRepresentationen_ZA
dc.subjectStreet photographyen_ZA
dc.titleSnapshots of freedom : street photography in Cape Town from the 1930s to the 1980sen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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