Magubane's South Africa

We quote from the cover: -
"This is a documentary of life in South Africa, of the painful life of more than sixteen million blacks living under the implacable rule of apartheid enforced by four million whites. It is also a record of achievement— the finest and most affecting work of a brilliantly talented photojour-nalist who in his twenty-year career has been forced to submit to censorship, jail, and repeated physical assault simply because of the color of his skin. From the first "treason" trials of 1956 and the Sharpe-ville massacre of 1960 to last year's bloody Soweto riots, Peter Magubane has been taking pictures—poignant, shocking, uncompromising pictures. He has covered demonstrations and police baton charges, daily life in the slums and the mines, city and countryside; he has reported on child labor, on migrant workers, on crime in the black housing areas. He has photographed the agony of his people.
As introduction to this book, Magubane has written a moving account of his own remarkable life, of his struggle against odds to become a photographer, of his constant battles with the police and other white authorities, of his imprisonment—including 586 days in solitary confinement—without ever having been convicted of a crime.
Magubanes South Africa is a unique and uniquely powerful pic-ture-and-text account of the ordinary, extraordinary, life of the black man in South Africa today.
- Born in Johannesburg in 1932, Peter Magubane began his career as a photographer on Drum magazine in 1956. Since 1965 he has been a staff member of the Rand Daily Mail, a Johannesburg newspaper, and is now also working in South Africa as a photographer for Time magazine."