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September 11th, 2012
thesmithian
Zoom …Drum’s…portrayals of black urban life, arts, politics and culture were revolutionary. Some of those images will be part of a major exhibition that opens at the International Center of Photography this month called “Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life.” “It was dangerous and difficult work,” Schadeberg says, recalling how the secret police kept the magazine under surveillance. “What we tried to show was how unjust apartheid was.” more.

…Drum’s…portrayals of black urban life, arts, politics and culture were revolutionary. Some of those images will be part of a major exhibition that opens at the International Center of Photography this month called “Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life.” “It was dangerous and difficult work,” Schadeberg says, recalling how the secret police kept the magazine under surveillance. “What we tried to show was how unjust apartheid was.”

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