Marie Meyerding

Women and Photography in Apartheid South Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Tracing the lives and works of five women in four case studies, author Marie Meyerding examines the representation of women in the field of photography in South Africa in the second half of the twentieth century. All of them are critically understudied, with no existing scholarship dedicated exclusively to their photographic contributions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032904511
• ISBN-10: 1032904518
• Artikelnr.: 72211351

Autorenporträt

Marie Meyerding is a postdoc with a Walter Benjamin position (DFG) at the Institute of Art and Musicology at the Technical University of Dresden and received her PhD from Freie Universität Berlin. Her research is published in African Arts, Third Text, kritische berichte, Critical Arts, Safundi and sehepunkte and she is the author of Sights of Struggle: The History of the Tambo Village Women.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 'Africa's First Woman Press Photographer': Mabel Cetu's Photographs in Zonk!
Chapter 2 An Intimate Lens: Jansje Wissema and the Recognition of Photography as Art in South Africa
Chapter 3 The Gendered Politics of Visibility: Struggle Photography, Afrapix and Lesley Lawson's Working Women
Chapter 4 Questions of Authorship and Attribution: On the Photographic Practice of Mavis Mtandeki and Primrose Talakumeni
Conclusion
Bibliography