Park pictures
On the work of photography in Johannesburg
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6030203 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louise Bethlehem (0000-0003-2567-0134, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author), Terry Kurgan |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 417-432 |
| Publication date | 2009-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Identities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1472-5843 • E-ISSN: 1472-5851 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14725840903031908 |
| OpenAlex | W1981082662 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 14 |
This article investigates the cultural economy of an inner-city Johannesburg park through tracking the work of itinerant photographers who operate there. The authors revisit Johannesburg artist Terry Kurgan's interactions with the photographers of Joubert Park in order to raise questions relating to their material and symbolic – or ‘immaterial’ – labour. They point to the mnemonic or archival dimensions of this labour and investigate the visual idioms in which inner-city migrants conduct their self-fashioning, forging modes of vernacular urbanity in the photographic encounter
Art · Civil engineering · Literature · Order (exchange · Photography · Slum · Sociology · Urbanity · Vernacular · Visual arts · Work (physics · African history and culture studies · Engineering · Public Spaces through Art · South African History and Culture
Postcolonial subjectivities in Africa
Technologies of the Self
Global pathways. Working class cosmopolitans and the creation of transnational ethnic worlds
Emerging Johannesburg
Filming the Edgy City
Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing
Renaissance self-fashioning
Transplants and Transients
The Civil Contract of Photography
Aesthetics of Superfluity
Writing the World from an African Metropolis
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2016 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |