Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life (2013) Available to Purchase

This chapter is the introductory essay to the exhibition Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, curated by Okwui Enwezor with Rory Bester and shown at the International Center for Photography, New York, from September 2012 to January 2013, and then in Munich, Milan, and Johannesburg. The essay discusses several of the five hundred photographs, films, books, magazines, newspapers, and archival materials displayed in the exhibition to illuminate the history of apartheid in South Africa as seen through the eyes of a wide range of local and international photographers.