Relocating the Heseltine Photographic Collection at District Six Museum
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: This paper reflects on the project of returning an historical collection of photographs to South Africa to be exhibited at the District Six Museum in Cape Town, over sixty years after they left the country. Curated by the author, the ambition of the exhibition was to begin the process of reconnecting the photographs to the city in which they were made. Informed by responses to the exhibition, the paper explores: the challenges of redisplaying historical photographic collections; the work of ‘reconnecting’ photographs to the people and places in which they were made; and how revisiting photographic depictions of the past might contribute to imagining South Africa’s present and future.
Source: African Arts
DOI: 10.1162/afar_a_00221
Author: Darren Newbury
Institutions: University of Oxford, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Brighton
Language: English
Topic: Photographic and Visual Arts
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2011810012