This digital curation is a creative reconfiguration of a book chapter titled, ‘The Archive in Pictures: A Visual Essay’, in which Justine Wintjes, from the KwaZulu-Natal Museum, a collaborating partner of the Five Hundred Year Archive, explores the excitement, diversity and complexity of experiences of working with and in the ‘archive’. The chapter appears in the book Archives of Times Past: Conversations About South Africa’s Deep History, edited by Cynthia Kros, John Wright, Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Helen Ludlow (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2022).
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CREDITS
Presentation guest curated by Justine Wintjes with support from FHYA in 2023. Thanks to Wits University Press and the book editors, in particular Cynthia Kros and John Wright, for their support of the online adaptation. Thanks go also to the photographers, individuals, and institutions for permission to use their images in the online version: Patricia Chipangura, Anton Coetzee, Thomas Huffman, Rachel King, Phumulani Madonda, Tim Maggs, Aron Mazel, Mudzunga Munzhedzi, Larry Owens, Chiara Singh, Gavin Whitelaw, John Wright, the African Rock Art Digital Archive, Berlin Mission Archive with materials featured in the Hoffman Collection of Cultural Knowledge, Campbell Collections of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Five Hundred Year Archive, KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Morija Museum and Archives and Rock Art Research Institute. Visual curation and page designs by Vanessa Chen with assistance from Studio de Greef. Technical support provided by Hussein Suleman. The project was coordinated by Lucienne Argent with administrative assistance from Rifqah Kahn. Our presentations are archived here. If you wish to contribute material relevant to this presentation, use this link.
EMANDULO
EMANDULO is an experimental digital platform, in ongoing development, for engaging with resources pertinent to southern African history before colonialism across what is today Eswatini, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, and the Eastern Cape.
USAGE RIGHTS
The materials in this curation are made available under a CC BY-NC-ND licence.