Defiant Images is based on substantial primary research, including interviews with photographers, editors and curators, and analysis of photographs held in collections and displayed in museums. Defiant Images develops a critical historical method for engaging with photographs of South Africa during the apartheid period, considering the photographs in their original contexts and their relationship to the politics of the time, listening to the voices of the photographers to try and understand how they viewed the work they were doing, and examining the place of photography in a post-apartheid era. Other chapters contribute to an understanding of the photographers Constance Stuart Larrabee and Leon Levson, the Drum magazine school of photography and the struggle photography of the 1980s. The chapter on Ernest Cole is the first major account of the life and work of one of Africa’s most important photographers. While keeping the lens trained on the evolution of photography it plunges the reader into a sharp and evocative socio-cultural history of a country in deep conflict.” – From the Foreword by Albie Sachs Defiant Images is the first book-length historical study of photography in apartheid South Africa and a significant contribution to research on documentary photography in the twentieth century. And it goes well beyond sophisticated debate on the artistic merits of images.
Defiant Images: Photography and Apartheid South Africa Published by University of South Africa (UNISA) Press, 2009 “This book is much more than just a discourse on photography in the land of apartheid.
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