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Arts > Photo > SA > Peter Magubane   1932-2024

 

 

 

Perhaps his most famous photograph,

Peter Magubane’s

1956 image of a Black maid tending to a white girl

captured the racial divide in apartheid South Africa.

 

Photograph: Peter Magubane

 

Peter Magubane, 91,

Who Fought Apartheid With His Camera,

Is Dead

He documented the cruelties of white South African rule,

and he was made to pay for it,

enduring beatings and 586 consecutive days

in solitary confinement.

NYT

January 1, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/
world/africa/peter-magubane-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Magubane   1932-2024

 

He documented the cruelties

of white South African rule,

and he was made to pay for it,

enduring beatings

and 586 consecutive days

in solitary confinement.

 

(...)

 

Such were the challenges and perils

facing Black photographers

in South Africa’s

apartheid-era segregated townships,

Mr. Magubane liked to say,

that he took to hiding his camera

in hollowed-out bread loaves,

empty milk cartons or even the Bible,

enabling him to shoot pictures

clandestinely.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/
world/africa/peter-magubane-dead.html

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Peter_Magubane

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2024/jan/12/
to-fight-with-my-camera-to-kill-apartheid-
peter-magubane-south-african-photographer - Guardian picture gallery

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/
world/africa/peter-magubane-dead.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2006/06/16/
5489490/soweto-1976-an-audio-history

 

https://www.npr.org/1998/06/20/
1001074/south-africa-portrait

 

https://www.npr.org/2003/02/18/
1166983/magubane

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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