Oral history interview with Omar Badsha, 1999

Biographical Note

Photographer

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

Subjects

• Afrapix.
• Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa.
• Badsha, Omar--Interviews.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa (2nd : 1984 :--Cape Town, South Africa).
• Clark, Mary Marshall, interviewer.
• Documentary photography--South Africa.
• Feminism--South Africa.
• Interviews.
• Labor movement--South Africa--History--20th century.
• Labor unions--South Africa--History--20th century.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Photographers--South Africa--Interviews.
• South Africa, the cordoned heart.

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