Inside and outside the family album: Making, exhibiting and archiving the photograph in the South African National Gallery and the National Library of South Africa
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University of the Western Cape
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One of the first things that reached me about photography was how a photograph tells
a story or stories. This experience is perhaps most common when viewing personal
photographs. A few years ago I was looking through a vast number of personal
photographs, of a family I knew well, and was struck by how all the photographs (in
albums, framed or lying loosely about) were part of a particular family narrative. Even
without the storytelling, which accompanied my viewing of the photographs, I could
still 'read' bits and pieces of the family history (and the broader social, political and
cultural histories) in their photographs.
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Magister Artium - MA (History)