TY  - JOUR
AU  - Wiesner, André
JF  - Javnost-The Public
TI  - Rediscovering the (Extra)Ordinary: Missed Experience and South African Documentary Photography
VL  - 14
IS  - 3
PY  - 2007
SN  - 1854-8377
PB  - EURICOM
UR  - https://javnost-thepublic.org/article/2007/3/1/
N2  - Under apartheid, activist and commercial photographers confronted violent, traumatic events, and their exposure of these to the wider world played a key role in bringing about the downfall of the state. Post-apartheid, documentary photography has generally taken a diff erent direction, orienting attention to the surrounding society, and making good on all manner of missed experiences. In their move to peripheral situations, photographers dignify the culture-making of ordinary folk. The persons in the photographer’s gaze are frequently those caught in the shock waves of hostilities (Guy Tillim), affl icted by a dread epidemic (Kim Lubdrook), or exposed to a diff use condition of endangerment, like violent criminality (David Southwood). Photographers are themselves in a way fatally endangered from afar and their attempts to visualise what is out of frame can be seen as a form of self-defence and passionate search in a bid to come to terms with trouble. The essay probes the post-apartheid state of documentary photography and its current directions.
U1  - Print ISSN: 1318-3222
ER  -