Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Omar Badsha : oral history, 1999.
Creator: | Badsha, Omar | Project: | Carnegie Corporation project. Pt. 2. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript 28 leaves Videorecording 3 videocassettes (66 min.) : digital betacam Sound recording 2 audiocassettes | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NotePhotographer.
Scope and Contents(b. 1945) Photography career: influence of family; use of photography in the South African liberation movement to educate and mobilize people, stimulate debate; involvement with trade unions early 1970s: documenting work injuries and history of movement through photographs; struggle against government restrictions on photography: use of progressive, church and trade union publications, smuggling of photographs outside South Africa, traveling exhibitions; establishment of Afrapix and Afrascope: progressive young photographers and filmmakers, black and white, documenting South Africa; growing anti-apartheid movement; participant in the Carnegie Corporation of New York's [Carnegie] Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa; themes of photographs for Carnegie project: stereotypes, links between poverty and apartheid, mine and factory workers; emerging South African women's movement in early 1980s; photographic exhibition book for Carnegie project, South Africa: The Cordoned Heart.
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2022. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York hold a non-exclusive license to enable library activities.
| |