Answer to Question #217390 in Political Science for salthiel

Question

Select one South African photojournalistic or documentary photograph that conveys an apartheid approach towards documentary photography. Discuss the photograph on the following aspects:

-Mise-en-scene analysis

-Genre analysis

-Ideology message

Explain why you think your chosen image conveys a specific aspect of apartheid ideology.

Answer 1

Apartheid is Violence. Violence is used to subjugate and to deny basic rights to black people. But no matter how the policy of apartheid has been applied over the years, both black and white democrats have actively opposed it. It is in the struggle for justice that the gulf between artists, writers, and photographers has been narrowed.