@article{ref1,
title="‘Bang-Bang Has Been Good to Us’",
journal="Theory, culture and society",
year="2010",
author="Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn",
volume="27",
number="7-8",
pages="214-237",
abstract="This article considers the changing perceptions, expressions and representations of violence in South Africa post-1994, with particular reference to photography. Following the evolution of the documentary tradition in its relationship to the political history of South Africa, I will suggest that since the release of Nelson Mandela and the first democratic elections in South Africa, photography has taken a new turn, particularly with regard to its representation of violence, which had been its primary iconography up to that watershed moment. I will follow three arguments (from Sartre, Benjamin and Mbembe) in my explication of the ways in which violence has both altered South African society and assumed a different place in the collective mind of South Africans living in a country that is politically free but grappling with an ever-rising wave of violent crime.<p />",
language="",
issn="0263-2764",
doi="10.1177/0263276410383711",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276410383711"
}