This biography of photographer Omar Badsha, who was intimately involved in documenting the struggle against apartheid, is also an intellectual history of protest in South Africa.
Drawn from personal archives and interviews, the book conveys an intimate sense of Badsha’s work from the 1950s to today. Daniel Magaziner chronicles how art and politics became intertwined in South Africa and explains Badsha’s efforts to maintain a critical aesthetic approach to political crises.
The book tracks the personal and social costs that such a commitment can incur, while also appreciating how Badsha and others like him have maintained their vision of an equitable, transformed society even today, when the ideals that once animated the South African struggle are on the back foot worldwide.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Daniel Magaziner is a professor of history at Yale University. He is the author of The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968– 1977, and_The Art of Life in South Africa
'Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa' is published by Jacana Media
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