Lecture, Barnard's Inn Hall, Tuesday, 25 Mar 2025 - 18:00

Documentary Photography in Apartheid South Africa

a sign from the apartheid era in South Africa

This lecture looks at debates and dialogues that characterise realist photography in Apartheid South Africa, from 1948 to 1994.

It explores the tensions between advocacy, propaganda and the ‘struggle’ on the one hand, and the poetics of everyday life on the other. It also examines figures from Ernest Cole and David Goldblatt to Zanele Muholi and Lebohang Kganye.

Professor Tamar Garb

Professor Tamar Garb

Tamar Garb is Durning Lawrence Professor in the History of Art. Her research interests have focused on questions of gender and sexuality in European art...

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