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

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dc.contributor.advisorDu Toit, Marijke
dc.contributor.authorMashiqa, Gcotyelwa
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-17T07:36:12Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-26T06:48:38Z
dc.date.available2022-03-17T07:36:12Z
dc.date.available2024-03-26T06:48:38Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionMagister Artium - MAen_US
dc.description.abstractThe 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�.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/9686
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectListening to imagesen_US
dc.subjectPhotographyen_US
dc.subjectNative studiesen_US
dc.subjectPost-apartheid archivesen_US
dc.subjectSocial documentaryen_US
dc.titleListening and reading: Leon Levson�s �native studies� photographs in the anti-apartheid Mayibuye archivesen_US

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