Building a White Nation
A unique study of South African propaganda photography during apartheid. Throughout the apartheid era, South Africa maintained a wide-reaching propaganda apparatus. At its core was the information service that strongly capitalised on photography to visually articulate the minority regime’s racist...
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Leuven University Press
2023
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| author | Jörder, Katharina |
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| description | A unique study of South African propaganda photography during apartheid.
Throughout the apartheid era, South Africa maintained a wide-reaching propaganda apparatus. At its core was the information service that strongly capitalised on photography to visually articulate the minority regime’s racist political messages, promote Afrikaner nationalism, and consolidate White rule. By unearthing a substantial corpus of photographs that so far have been hidden in archives, this book offers a distinctive perspective on the institutional context of the regime’s photographic production and how it was tightly linked to the objective to build a White nation. Through scrutiny of the photographic material’s iconographies, its circulation in printed matters, and a comparison with works by photographers like Margaret Bourke-White, Ernest Cole, and David Goldblatt, readers gain fresh insight into the country’s visual culture of the period. Based on the ambiguity of photographs, the monograph challenges the alleged dichotomy between so-called pro- and anti-apartheid photographies, highlighting how the regime was able to position photographs in the grey area of inconspicuousness.
By blending photo theory and art historical analysis with historical studies, Building a White Nation will appeal to scholars and postgraduate students in cultural studies interested in photo history and theory, visual culture and art history, African studies, South African photography, Afrikaner nationalism, propaganda studies, postcolonial studies, and archive theory.
Ebook available in Open Access.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1319222025-07-29T17:19:46Z Building a White Nation Jörder, Katharina Photography;Propaganda;Apartheid Regime;Afrikaner Nationalism;Archive;History;Postcolonial theory;South Africa A unique study of South African propaganda photography during apartheid. Throughout the apartheid era, South Africa maintained a wide-reaching propaganda apparatus. At its core was the information service that strongly capitalised on photography to visually articulate the minority regime’s racist political messages, promote Afrikaner nationalism, and consolidate White rule. By unearthing a substantial corpus of photographs that so far have been hidden in archives, this book offers a distinctive perspective on the institutional context of the regime’s photographic production and how it was tightly linked to the objective to build a White nation. Through scrutiny of the photographic material’s iconographies, its circulation in printed matters, and a comparison with works by photographers like Margaret Bourke-White, Ernest Cole, and David Goldblatt, readers gain fresh insight into the country’s visual culture of the period. Based on the ambiguity of photographs, the monograph challenges the alleged dichotomy between so-called pro- and anti-apartheid photographies, highlighting how the regime was able to position photographs in the grey area of inconspicuousness. By blending photo theory and art historical analysis with historical studies, Building a White Nation will appeal to scholars and postgraduate students in cultural studies interested in photo history and theory, visual culture and art history, African studies, South African photography, Afrikaner nationalism, propaganda studies, postcolonial studies, and archive theory. Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). 2023-12-13T04:24:57Z 2023-12-13T04:24:57Z 2023-12-12T13:52:53Z 2023 book OCN: 1414210737 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86073 9789462703803 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/131922 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86073/1/9789461665263.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86073/1/9789461665263.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86073/1/9789461665263.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86073/1/9789461665263.pdf Leuven University Press 10.11116/9789461665263 10.11116/9789461665263 9e472607-bec3-4b15-ba3f-f05039722389 KU Leuven Freie Universität Berlin 608fbdcb-bd0a-4d50-9a26-902224692f76 a6adce6b-3f26-4535-92d8-598288bff431 9789462703803 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 369 Leuven open access |
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