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‘Show the world what the white South African had done to the Black’

… Ernest Cole.

 

Agroup of Black men stand naked in a line with their arms up, facing the wall,

as they undergo a medical examination before being sent to work in the mines.

 

The image is just one of many by the late Ernest Cole

depicting the dehumanisation of Black people during apartheid.

 

Photograph: Ernest Cole

Magnum Photos

 

‘Politically, it’s important. It’s important for humanity’:

the long-lost civil rights images of Ernest Cole

A new Raoul Peck documentary showcases the recently rediscovered work of the photographer

who drew parallels between apartheid South Africa and America’s battle for equality

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Thu 20 Feb 2025    09.00 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/20/
ernest-cole-photography-raoul-peck-lost-and-found-documentary-movie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During group medical examination

the nude men are herded through a string of doctors’ offices.

 

Photograph: © Ernest Cole

Magnum Photos

 

The Power and Impact of Ernest Cole’s Rediscovered Archive

With the arrival of thousands

of his rediscovered negatives in the Magnum archive,

we look at Ernest Cole's

groundbreaking book on South Africa under apartheid,

the mysteries of his life and the impact of his work

https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/
society-arts-culture/ernest-cole-rediscovered-archive-apartheid-black-history/ - 24 November 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

South Africa, 1960s

These boys were caught trespassing in a white area

 

Apartheid, civil rights and beyond:

Ernest Cole’s secret archive – in pictures

The photographer’s revealing book House of Bondage

saw him exiled from his native South Africa in the 1960s.

Now a new exhibition unveils previously unseen images

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Tue 14 Mar 2023    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/mar/14/
apartheid-photographer-ernest-cole-house-of-bondage-south-africa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

South Africa, 1960s

Students kneel on the floor to write.

The government did not always provide

schools for black children

 

Apartheid, civil rights and beyond:

Ernest Cole’s secret archive – in pictures

The photographer’s revealing book House of Bondage

saw him exiled from his native South Africa in the 1960s.

Now a new exhibition unveils previously unseen images

G

Tue 14 Mar 2023    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/mar/14/
apartheid-photographer-ernest-cole-house-of-bondage-south-africa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

South Africa, Mamelodi, 1960s

Acres of identical four-room houses on nameless streets.

Many were hours by train from city jobs

 

Apartheid, civil rights and beyond:

Ernest Cole’s secret archive – in pictures

The photographer’s revealing book House of Bondage

saw him exiled from his native South Africa in the 1960s.

Now a new exhibition unveils previously unseen images

G

Tue 14 Mar 2023    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/mar/14/
apartheid-photographer-ernest-cole-house-of-bondage-south-africa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ernest Cole    1940-1990

 

long-neglected pioneer

who captured the beauty and the ugliness

of segregated South Africa

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/25/
ernest-cole-david-goldblatt-apartheid-photography

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ernest_Cole_(photographer)

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/20/
ernest-cole-photography-raoul-peck-lost-and-found-documentary-movie

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/21/
raoul-peck-ernest-cole-film

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/mar/14/
apartheid-photographer-ernest-cole-house-of-bondage-south-africa

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/
books/review/ernest-cole-house-of-bondage.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/dec/06/
david-goldblatt-ernest-cole-aparteid-era-south-africa-photography

 

https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/
society-arts-culture/ernest-cole-rediscovered-
archive-apartheid-black-history/ - 24 November 2019

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/
arts/design/what-ernest-coles-hidden-camera-revealed.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/25/
ernest-cole-david-goldblatt-apartheid-photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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