For Whites Only
Artist
Ernest Cole(South African, 1940–1990)South African, 1940–1990
Printer
Dennis da Silva(South African, born 1950)South African, born 1950
CultureSouth African
Titles
- For Whites Only
- from the series House of Bondage
Date1960–1966, printed 2020
Place depictedSouth Africa
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 18 × 12 in. (45.7 × 30.5 cm)
Sheet: 19 13/16 × 15 7/8 in. (50.3 × 40.3 cm)
Sheet: 19 13/16 × 15 7/8 in. (50.3 × 40.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment
Object number2020.396.37
Not on view
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Ernest Cole’s book House of Bondage, in which this photograph appeared, is a searing indictment of South African apartheid by an artist who personally knew and experienced its daily humiliations and horrors. For the outside world, the book, published in New York in 1967 and London in 1968, was the period’s most powerful visualization of apartheid, coming as the antiapartheid movement was gaining worldwide attention and strength.
ProvenanceMagnum Photos, London; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
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