‘Lest we forget’: Photography and the presentation of history at the Apartheid Museum, Gold Reef City, and the Hector Pieterson Museum, Soweto

Visual Communication

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 259-295

  Newbury, Darren ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

apartheid; museums; photography; South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249429164     PISSN: 14703572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470357205055919     Document Type: Article

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