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Book - Ernest Cole Photographs 

Ernest Cole 

This book will, for the first time, enable Ernest Cole to be seen in the perspective of international photography where he surely deserves an honoured place, not simply for his remarkable courage and determination in the face of state oppression but for the perceptiveness of his seeing eye and his ability to put what he saw into photographs of remarkable rigour, subtlety and elegance. These qualities were often subordinated to the need for the strongest possible anti-apartheid statement in his acclaimed book House of Bondage, published in 1967. Many of the photographs have never been published... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
Mamelodi. 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Eersterust.
Black peoples, homes were demolished... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Mamelodi.
People returning after a long... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Sign warns that permits are needed to enter... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. Mamelodi. 1960s. Typical location has acres of... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
Martha Mogale hanging out the napkins for... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
Anna, Jessie, Jane and Humphrey Mogale,... 

Ernest Cole 1961

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960's. Living room furniture. Only thing of any... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. There is one bed in the Mogale house. Daniel... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Moses Mogale does homework by candlelight.... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. Early 1960s.

According to Julian Bahula, this... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
Low-paid Africans buy high-priced goods... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
Bantu Beer: Africans may not drink in city... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Usual way to hide liquor from police is... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Township mother fights losing battle to... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
Young boy named Papa, seen here fighting... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. The line between laughing and crying, between... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
Boy named Papa. 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.

According to Struan Robertson and others,... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
This wooden building is ice-cold in winter... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.

According to Struan Robertson and others,... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Students kneel on floor to write. Government... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Earnest boy squats on haunches and strains... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Brand new school, with no desks. It opened... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
Trains were too few, too full and too slow.... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Africans throng Johannesburg station platform... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Africans throng Johannesburg station platform... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Johannesburg.
Africans throng Johannesburg... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Africans throng Johannesburg station platform... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
“We sleep anywhere,” a boy told me, “in... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. White man assaults tsotsi who tried to snatch... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Johannesburg.
”Penny baas, please, baas,... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Johannesburg. ”Penny baas, please, baas,... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. A white pocket being picked. Whites are... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. A white pocket being picked. Whites are... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. As white man sags to street, a second tsotsi... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
The guest holds baby – a little nervously... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
A guest with mother and child. 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
Riverside. Dance time. 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Riverside.
Dance time. 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Servants are not forbidden to love. Woman... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
Dogs are well tended by and well fed by... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.

According to Struan Robertson, this is... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.

According to Struan Robertson, this is... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Saxonwold, Johannesburg.
Entertaining friends... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
Domestic worker. 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Johannesburg.
Servants' quarters atop a... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Newspapers are her carpet; fruit crates... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Living in her ”kaya” out back, servant must... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
Black nanny accompanying a white child on... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.

According to Struan Robertson, this was... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Handcuffed blacks were arrested for being... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. People line up at Bantu Administration building... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
School headmasters have to leave work and... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. During a “swoop,” police are everywhere,... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Men who have finished their sentences depart... 
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