Lounge photography and the politics of township interiors: the representation of the black South African home in the Ngilima photographic collection, East Rand, 1950s
This article attempts to historically contextualise and interpret a selection of photographs from the collection of South African ambulant photographer Ronald Ngilima and his son Torrance. Ngilima pioneered indoor portraiture in the Benoni townships of the early 1950s, thanks to his early acquisitio...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities Research and the History Department
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Kronos |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-01902012000100007 |