Focus, Shoot, Conceal: Apartheid in Pictures
Jeremy Harding, 27 July 2023
Untitled (c.1965)
Photography in the industrial age was fascinated by the subject of work. The readying of humans for their roles in the workforce was a minor subgenre of this huge documentary field. A glimpse of labour in the making was provided in the 1930s by the photographer François Kollar, shooting in a desolate concrete chamber where young French children were learning to...