Santu Mofokeng, Winter in Tembisa (from the series "Township Billboards : Beauty, Sex and Cellphones"), 1991.
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David Goldblatt, Man sleeping. Joubert Park, Johannesburg, August, 1975. from Particulars
“I was always struck by the need to make photographs that were somehow relevant to our society, to our situation in dealing with apartheid and the opposition to it…. But I wanted somehow to be free just to photograph the things that I found beautiful.”
Boycott Polaroid
This poster promoted a demonstration at Polaroid Corporation protesting its business in South Africa. In 1970, African American employees at Polaroid discovered that the company's film was being used to produce photographs for passbooks that Africans were required to carry. The workers formed the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement (PRWM) and called for a world-wide boycott of all Polaroid products. The PRWM demanded that the company disengage from South Africa, make a public statement in both South Africa and the U.S. confirming its position on apartheid, and contribute its profits made in South Africa to recognized African liberation movements.
Polaroid Colorpack III ...... Imprisons a Black South African Every 60 Seconds by Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement, 1971.
Leaflet published by the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement (PRWM). In 1970 the PRWM initiated a call for a boycott of Polaroid products because it sold its products in South Africa, including it I.D.02 system that was used to make the pass book all African had to carry during the apartheid years.
Polaroid and South Africa by Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement, 1971.
Polaroid film was being used in the South African government passbooks that all Africans were required to carry during the apartheid years.
Polaroid and South Africa by Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement, 1971.
Polaroid film was being used in the South African government passbooks that all Africans were required to carry during the apartheid years.
No Bullshit - Boycott Polaroid by Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement.
This button was produced as part of a campaign begun in 1970 by the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement (PRWM) to demand that the company disengage from South Africa, make a public statement in both South Africa and the U.S. confirming its position on apartheid, and contribute profits it made in South Africa to recognized African liberation movements.
Polaroid film was being used in the South African government passbooks that all Africans were required to carry.
Hugh Masekela at his best, paying tribute to the then-imprisoned Mandela, 1987.