- Title
- The thirtieth anniversary of the Soweto uprisings: reading the shadow in Sam Nzima's iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson
- Creator
- Simbao, Ruth K
- Date Issued
- 2007
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147536
- Identifier
- vital:38647
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1162/afar.2007.40.2.52
- Description
- This haunting photograph (Fig. 1) from the 1976 Soweto Uprisings in South Africa is often referred to as the single most important photograph to emerge from the struggle against apartheid (Purtilo 1999:22). According to South African film director Feizel Mamdoo, there are particular moments in history that are defined by photographic, celluloid, or television images, such as the world famous photograph of the Saigon girl, naked and burning from napalm (Worsdale 1998; see also Richards 2001). He argues that the iconic photograph by Sam Nzima depicting Hector Pieterson being carried in the arms of Mbuyisa Makhubu, with his distraught sister Antionette1 running alongside, is comparable in the way that “it marks history, both social and personal” (Worsdale 1998).
- Format
- 18 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African arts
- Relation
- Simbao, R.K., 2007. The thirtieth anniversary of the Soweto uprisings: Reading the shadow in Sam Nzima's iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson. African Arts, 40(2), pp.52-69.
- Relation
- African arts volume 40 number 2 52 69 May 2007 1937-2108
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the African Arts Statement (https://0-www.jstor.org.wam.seals.ac.za/journal/africanarts)
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