Du Toit, MarijkeMashiqa, Gcotyelwa2022-03-172024-03-262022-03-172024-03-262021https://hdl.handle.net/10566/9686Magister Artium - MAThe 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�.enListening to imagesPhotographyNative studiesPost-apartheid archivesSocial documentaryUniversity of the Western Cape