Introduction
The Power of Language
Women and Photography in South Africa Before Apartheid
Women and Photography During Apartheid
Archives and Access
Missing Images
Turning to Methods
Chapter 1 | ‘Africa’s First Woman Press Photographer’: Mabel Cetu’s Photographs in Zonk!
‘Woman of Many Parts’
Zonk! and the Politics of Representation
‘Zonk Trains Africa’s First Woman Press Photographer’
Picturing Everyday Life: ‘MABEL REPORTS from P.E.’
Gendered Visions
The Portrait of a Community
Beyond Zonk!
Conclusion
Chapter 2 | An Intimate Lens: Jansje Wissema and the Recognition of Photography as Art in South Africa
A Short Biography Full to the Brim
Jansje Wissema’s Cape Town at the South African National Gallery
South African Women and The Family of Man
District Six and Questions of Politics
Wissema’s Photographs in Private Collections
Conclusion
Chapter 3 | The Gendered Politics of Visibility: Struggle Photography, Afrapix and Lesley Lawson’s Working Women
A Gendered Perspective on Struggle Photography
Photobooks as a Means of Struggle
Photobooks for the Feminist Enterprise
Lawson’s Working Women
Between Content and Form
Structure and Content of Working Women
The Politics of Visibility
Agency in Working Women
Conclusion
Chapter 4 | Questions of Authorship and Attribution: On the Photographic Practice of Mavis Mtandeki and Primrose Talakumeni
The Personal and Political Lives of Talakumeni and Mtandeki
Becoming Photographers
Exhibition History
Attribution and Authorship
Looking Closer
Conclusion
Epilogue
Conclusion
A Short Recap
Women and Photography in South Africa After Apartheid
Closure and Opening
Bibliography
Biography
Marie Meyerding is a postdoc with a Walter Benjamin position (German Research Foundation) at the Institute of Art and Musicology at the Technical Universität Dresden and received her PhD from Freie Universität Berlin. Her research is published in African Arts, Third Text, kritische berichte, Critical Arts, Safundi, Camera Austria and sehepunkte and she is the author of Sights of Struggle: The History of the Tambo Village Women.
