D Newbury
Biographic Data
| ID | 13677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Newbury |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Newbury |
| SIGNATURE | NEWBURY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birmingham City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2036-9150 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Picturing African Futures: Photography, Education and International Understanding in a Unesco Poster Set
In the 1950s and 1960s, UNESCO produced a series of photographic poster sets on topics such as cross-cultural understanding, education, human rights, literacy, and the rights of children. The series brought the utility of the reproducible paper exhibition format together with the idea of education for international understanding that was central to the UNESCO mission, and reflected the organization’s engagement with postwar humanistic photography…
Pictured exchanges, quiet conversations, and silenced voices: Listening to the US Information Agency photographic collection
In the late 1950s and 1960s, in the context of decolonization, the US government initiated a campaign of photographic diplomacy in Africa, through the United States Information Agency (USIA). The photography that emerged served as an index and agent of relations. The photographs frequently pictured subjects in conversation and were meant to be talked about; yet beyond abstract ideas of friendship and mutuality, these exchanges were rarely recorde…
Cold War Photographic Diplomacy: Darren Newbury in Conversation with Kylie Thomas
This interview focuses on Cold War Photographic Diplomacy, a detailed study of the United States Information Agency (USIA) and the vast archive of photographs it produced as part of its work in crafting political and social relations between the United States and newly decolonized African countries in the 1950s and 1960s. Newbury’s book illuminates the central place of race in the Cold War imagination in the time of anti-colonial struggle and dec…
An African Looks at America: Picturing Racial Integration for Africa, 1956–68
The global tour of Edward Steichen’s 1955 photographic exhibition The Family of Man , sponsored by the United States Information Agency (USIA), has long been viewed as the defining moment for the medium’s engagement in US Cold War diplomacy and propaganda. Yet the attention garnered by this single exhibition has served to obscure an extensive programme of photographic diplomacy developed by the USIA during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and larg…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 48, No. 2
Complete issue of Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Volume 48, Number 2
Making Arguments with Images: Visual Scholarship and Academic Publishing
Introduction: Relocating the African Photographic Archive
Photographs are the subjects of complex narratives. From the frequent use of photographs as illustrations for historical and cultural narratives and the turn towards visual evidence across the humanities and social sciences to in-depth studies of specific collections, photography has become an essential medium for those seeking to understand African societies and cultures of the colonial and postcolonial periods. The complex story of Mayibuye arc…
Photography and African futures
Editorial introduction by guest editors
‘Window on the West Indies’: The photographic imagination of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
In the mid-1950s, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) sponsored two substantial photographic exhibitions in Britain, on South Africa and the British West Indies, promoting its mission activities and forming the centrepieces for fundraising campaigns. This article takes the latter exhibition – ‘Window on the West Indies’ – as an opportunity to examine the Society’s evolving approach to the medium, and its photographic archival lega…
Through a lens darkly: Black photographers and the emergence of a people directed by Thomas Allen Harris Civil rights childhood: Picturing liberation in African American photobooks by Katharine Capsha…
Every negro boy and every negro girl born in this country until this present moment undergoes the agony of trying to find in the body politic, in the body social, outside himself, herself, some ima
Relocating the Heseltine Photographic Collection at District Six Museum
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 his…
Seeing the Olympics: Images, spaces, legacies
Collection of articles and photo-essays from international researchers and photographers (inc. Chris Dorley-Brown, Paul Seawright) commissioned and edited/curated to mark the Olympics
Making Arguments with Images: Visual Scholarship and Academic Publishing
Ernest Cole and the South African Security Police
Ernest Cole is one of the most important photographers to emerge from South Africa during the apartheid period. His book, House of Bondage, which he went into to exile to publish, provided a powerf
Photographs of Windermere: The Bryan Heseltine Collection
(2010). Photographs of Windermere: The Bryan Heseltine Collection. Photography and Culture: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 225-237
Defiant Images: Photography and Apartheid South Africa
`This book is much more than just a discourse on photography in the land of apartheid. And it goes well beyond sophisticated debate on the artistic merits of images. While keeping the lens trained on the evolution of photography it plunges the reader into a sharp and evocative sociocultural history of a country in deep conflict.’ – Albie Sachs Photography is often believed to witness history or reflect society, but such perspectives fail to accou…
Image, Theory, Practice: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of Photographic Education
Kurdistan: In the shadow of history / Daring to look: Dorothea Lange's photographs and reports from the field
Johannesburg Lunch-Hour 1951–1963: The emergence and development of the humanist photographic essay in Drum magazine
Framing the concerns of this paper are two short photographic essays published in Drum, a South African picture magazine modelled on the British Picture Post and the US Life. Both essays take as their subject the activities of black South Africans during a typical lunch-hour in Johannesburg; the first was published (un-credited) in September 1951, the second by Peter Magubane was published in July 1963. I argue that they represent the beginning a…
Lest we forget: Photography and the presentation of history at the Apartheid Museum, Gold Reef City, and the Hector Pieterson Museum, Soweto
Since the end of the apartheid dispensation in South Africa in 1994 there have been many new memorials, exhibitions and museum displays that have sought to represent and interpret the country's recent history. This article looks at two major and recently opened museums: the Apartheid Museum at Gold Reef City in Johannesburg (opened in 2001), and the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto (opened in 2002). The focus of the article is the dominant role …
Walker Evans: Florida
Documentary practices and working-class culture: An interview with Murray Martin (Amber films and side photographic gallery)
Amber Films was formed as a collective of filmmakers and photographers in the late 1960s (with the Side Photographic Gallery founded in 1977). The aim the group was to creatively document working class culture in the North East of England through film and photography. The first part of the paper offers a brief introduction to the work of Amber/Side as it has developed over a thirty-year period. It situates the film and photographic work in its so…
Photography and the Visualization of Working Class Lives in Britain
Talking about Practice: Photography students, photographic culture and professional identities
Despite the social and cultural importance of photography in modern societies, photographic education is an area that has inspired very little in the way of academic research. Photographic education is generally perceived in very narrow terms, as an area of technical training, lacking any broader intellectual significance. It is the argument of this paper that in his/her many guises the photographer is an important figure in contemporary culture,…
Reconstructing the Self: Photography, education and disability
Despite the centrality of photography to an understanding of the self and others in contemporary culture, its educational significance has been largely ignored. This paper examines the potential of photographic work as a means of exploring and reconstructing understandings of disability in an educational context. The particular empirical focus is a short project in the context of a Foundation arts course. It is argued that the practical work prod…
Lest we forget: Photography and the presentation of history at the Apartheid Museum, Gold Reef City, and the Hector Pieterson Museum, Soweto
Since the end of the apartheid dispensation in South Africa in 1994 there have been many new memorials, exhibitions and museum displays that have sought to represent and interpret the country's recent history. This article looks at two major and recently opened museums: the Apartheid Museum at Gold Reef City in Johannesburg (opened in 2001), and the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto (opened in 2002). The focus of the article is the dominant role …
Reconstructing the Self: Photography, education and disability
Despite the centrality of photography to an understanding of the self and others in contemporary culture, its educational significance has been largely ignored. This paper examines the potential of photographic work as a means of exploring and reconstructing understandings of disability in an educational context. The particular empirical focus is a short project in the context of a Foundation arts course. It is argued that the practical work prod…
Talking about Practice: Photography students, photographic culture and professional identities
Despite the social and cultural importance of photography in modern societies, photographic education is an area that has inspired very little in the way of academic research. Photographic education is generally perceived in very narrow terms, as an area of technical training, lacking any broader intellectual significance. It is the argument of this paper that in his/her many guises the photographer is an important figure in contemporary culture,…
Johannesburg Lunch-Hour 1951–1963: The emergence and development of the humanist photographic essay in Drum magazine
Framing the concerns of this paper are two short photographic essays published in Drum, a South African picture magazine modelled on the British Picture Post and the US Life. Both essays take as their subject the activities of black South Africans during a typical lunch-hour in Johannesburg; the first was published (un-credited) in September 1951, the second by Peter Magubane was published in July 1963. I argue that they represent the beginning a…
Photography and the Visualization of Working Class Lives in Britain
Reconstructing the Self: Photography, education and disability
Despite the centrality of photography to an understanding of the self and others in contemporary culture, its educational significance has been largely ignored. This paper examines the potential of photographic work as a means of exploring and reconstructing understandings of disability in an educational context. The particular empirical focus is a short project in the context of a Foundation arts course. It is argued that the practical work prod…
The visibility of poverty: A rural vision of depression in the photographs of the farm security administration
Talking about Practice: Photography students, photographic culture and professional identities
Despite the social and cultural importance of photography in modern societies, photographic education is an area that has inspired very little in the way of academic research. Photographic education is generally perceived in very narrow terms, as an area of technical training, lacking any broader intellectual significance. It is the argument of this paper that in his/her many guises the photographer is an important figure in contemporary culture,…
Photography and the Visualization of Working Class Lives in Britain
Documentary practices and working-class culture: An interview with Murray Martin (Amber films and side photographic gallery)
Amber Films was formed as a collective of filmmakers and photographers in the late 1960s (with the Side Photographic Gallery founded in 1977). The aim the group was to creatively document working class culture in the North East of England through film and photography. The first part of the paper offers a brief introduction to the work of Amber/Side as it has developed over a thirty-year period. It situates the film and photographic work in its so…
Walker Evans: Florida
Lest we forget: Photography and the presentation of history at the Apartheid Museum, Gold Reef City, and the Hector Pieterson Museum, Soweto
Since the end of the apartheid dispensation in South Africa in 1994 there have been many new memorials, exhibitions and museum displays that have sought to represent and interpret the country's recent history. This article looks at two major and recently opened museums: the Apartheid Museum at Gold Reef City in Johannesburg (opened in 2001), and the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto (opened in 2002). The focus of the article is the dominant role …
Johannesburg Lunch-Hour 1951–1963: The emergence and development of the humanist photographic essay in Drum magazine
Framing the concerns of this paper are two short photographic essays published in Drum, a South African picture magazine modelled on the British Picture Post and the US Life. Both essays take as their subject the activities of black South Africans during a typical lunch-hour in Johannesburg; the first was published (un-credited) in September 1951, the second by Peter Magubane was published in July 1963. I argue that they represent the beginning a…
Defiant Images: Photography and Apartheid South Africa
`This book is much more than just a discourse on photography in the land of apartheid. And it goes well beyond sophisticated debate on the artistic merits of images. While keeping the lens trained on the evolution of photography it plunges the reader into a sharp and evocative sociocultural history of a country in deep conflict.’ – Albie Sachs Photography is often believed to witness history or reflect society, but such perspectives fail to accou…
Image, Theory, Practice: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of Photographic Education
Kurdistan: In the shadow of history / Daring to look: Dorothea Lange's photographs and reports from the field
Photographs of Windermere: The Bryan Heseltine Collection
(2010). Photographs of Windermere: The Bryan Heseltine Collection. Photography and Culture: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 225-237
Making Arguments with Images: Visual Scholarship and Academic Publishing
Ernest Cole and the South African Security Police
Ernest Cole is one of the most important photographers to emerge from South Africa during the apartheid period. His book, House of Bondage, which he went into to exile to publish, provided a powerf
Seeing the Olympics: Images, spaces, legacies
Collection of articles and photo-essays from international researchers and photographers (inc. Chris Dorley-Brown, Paul Seawright) commissioned and edited/curated to mark the Olympics
Relocating the Heseltine Photographic Collection at District Six Museum
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 his…
Through a lens darkly: Black photographers and the emergence of a people directed by Thomas Allen Harris Civil rights childhood: Picturing liberation in African American photobooks by Katharine Capsha…
Every negro boy and every negro girl born in this country until this present moment undergoes the agony of trying to find in the body politic, in the body social, outside himself, herself, some ima
Photography and African futures
Editorial introduction by guest editors
‘Window on the West Indies’: The photographic imagination of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
In the mid-1950s, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) sponsored two substantial photographic exhibitions in Britain, on South Africa and the British West Indies, promoting its mission activities and forming the centrepieces for fundraising campaigns. This article takes the latter exhibition – ‘Window on the West Indies’ – as an opportunity to examine the Society’s evolving approach to the medium, and its photographic archival lega…
Making Arguments with Images: Visual Scholarship and Academic Publishing
Introduction: Relocating the African Photographic Archive
Photographs are the subjects of complex narratives. From the frequent use of photographs as illustrations for historical and cultural narratives and the turn towards visual evidence across the humanities and social sciences to in-depth studies of specific collections, photography has become an essential medium for those seeking to understand African societies and cultures of the colonial and postcolonial periods. The complex story of Mayibuye arc…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 48, No. 2
Complete issue of Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Volume 48, Number 2
An African Looks at America: Picturing Racial Integration for Africa, 1956–68
The global tour of Edward Steichen’s 1955 photographic exhibition The Family of Man , sponsored by the United States Information Agency (USIA), has long been viewed as the defining moment for the medium’s engagement in US Cold War diplomacy and propaganda. Yet the attention garnered by this single exhibition has served to obscure an extensive programme of photographic diplomacy developed by the USIA during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and larg…
Pictured exchanges, quiet conversations, and silenced voices: Listening to the US Information Agency photographic collection
In the late 1950s and 1960s, in the context of decolonization, the US government initiated a campaign of photographic diplomacy in Africa, through the United States Information Agency (USIA). The photography that emerged served as an index and agent of relations. The photographs frequently pictured subjects in conversation and were meant to be talked about; yet beyond abstract ideas of friendship and mutuality, these exchanges were rarely recorde…
Cold War Photographic Diplomacy: Darren Newbury in Conversation with Kylie Thomas
This interview focuses on Cold War Photographic Diplomacy, a detailed study of the United States Information Agency (USIA) and the vast archive of photographs it produced as part of its work in crafting political and social relations between the United States and newly decolonized African countries in the 1950s and 1960s. Newbury’s book illuminates the central place of race in the Cold War imagination in the time of anti-colonial struggle and dec…
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