Listening and reading: Leon Levson�s �native studies� photographs in the anti-apartheid Mayibuye archives

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2021

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University of the Western Cape

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The thesis focuses on Leon Levson�s �native study� photographs, taken in the 1940s in the rural areas of Transkei and Bechuanaland. These photographs are housed at the UWC-Robben Island Museum-Mayibuye Archives as part of the International Defence Aid Fund (IDAF) photography collection. I am interested in the archival glitch of the �native study� as located at an anti-apartheid archive and how Leon Levson has been situated at the centre of the South African social documentary photography tradition in this archive. Levson�s desire was to produce a pictorial testimony of �natives�.

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Magister Artium - MA

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Listening to images, Photography, Native studies, Post-apartheid archives, Social documentary

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