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🔒 Ruth Simbao raises the question “of what happens to an emblematic image of protest as the climate of resistance shifts and as a homogenous history is conscientiously pried apart”?

Loaded: Sam Nzima’s photograph is used to officially commemorate the June 16 uprisings and the author argues it has layer upon layer of meaning. The thirtieth anniversary of the Soweto Uprisings: Reading the shadow in Sam Nzima’s iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson

She goes on to show how Nzima’s iconic image of the June 16 1976 uprisings “seems to take on new meanings in its recontextualisation” and, with reference to Joel Snyder’s “” in Studies in Visual Communication, that it did not have an “unequivocal meaning to begin with”.

 

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