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Loss through selection
Shared by Matthew Blackman Date shared 27 March 2025 Projects Source Conversation

"The photographs selected by the American publishers for the first edition [of Ernest Cole’s House of Bondage (1967)] are photojournalism, a documentation of the oppression that was happening in South Africa. That was a valid outlook on the country at the time, but what has been lost is the culture that developed."
– Matthew Blackman

At the conclusion of the inaugural A4 Library Residency, Matthew Blackman, Khanya Mashabela, and Daniel Malan discuss South African jazz, art, and photojournalism in the 1950s and ‘60s.

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