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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
‘Bang-Bang Has Been Good to Us’
Contributor:
Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn
Published:
SAGE Publications, 2010
Published in:
Theory, Culture & Society, 27 (2010) 7-8, Seite 214-237
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1177/0263276410383711
ISSN:
0263-2764;
1460-3616
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
This article considers the changing perceptions, expressions and representations of violence in South Africa post-1994, with particular reference to photography. Following the evolution of the documentary tradition in its relationship to the political history of South Africa, I will suggest that since the release of Nelson Mandela and the first democratic elections in South Africa, photography has taken a new turn, particularly with regard to its representation of violence, which had been its primary iconography up to that watershed moment. I will follow three arguments (from Sartre, Benjamin and Mbembe) in my explication of the ways in which violence has both altered South African society and assumed a different place in the collective mind of South Africans living in a country that is politically free but grappling with an ever-rising wave of violent crime.