A book of photographers with no photographs highlights the ownership battles black lensmen are still battling.
is a photography book without photographs. Yes, there is a list of photographs — shorn of the photographers’ bylines — in the book. But no photographs.
The case of Nzima is reflective — and instructive — of this problem. Nzima’s iconic photograph of Mbuyisa Makhubu carrying the dead body of 13-year-old Hector Pieterson during the student uprising in Soweto on 16 June 1976 was sold and published around the world, in major newspapers, for decades.
Jansen said the decision was fed by several considerations. These include her own background and scholarship about the work of photographers Cedric Nunn and Ernest Cole. That process raised questions about the relationship between “already defined” bodies of work and the scholars’ academic intentions.
Questions arose around whether using fewer photographs but showcasing more photographers would assist in documenting the lives and work of more black photographers threatened with being consigned to the scrap-heap of history.
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