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Peter Magubane (b. 1932) is a South African photographer. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa A photographer is a person who takes a Photograph using a Camera.

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He was born in Vrededorp, now Pageview, a suburb in Johannesburg and grew up in Sophiatown. Pageview is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 8. Johannesburg ( Pronounced /jō-hān'ĭs-bûrg'/ is the largest city in South Africa. Sophiatown (pronounced with a long stressed i) (also known as Sof'town or Kofifi) is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa He started taking some photographs using a Kodak Brownie box camera as a schoolboy. Brownie was the name of a long-running and extremely popular series of simple and inexpensive Cameras made by Kodak.

In 1954 he read a copy of Drum, a magazine known for its reporting of urban blacks and the effects of apartheid. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Drum is a South African family magazine mainly aimed at Black readers and contains market news entertainment and feature articles They were dealing with social issues that affected black people in South Africa. I wanted to be part of that magazine. [1]

He started at Drum as a driver. After six months of odd jobs, he was given a photography assignment under the mentorship of Jürgen Schadeberg, the chief photographer. Jürgen Schadeberg (born 1931) is a South African Photographer and Artist. He borrowed a camera and covered the 1955 ANC convention. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) The African National Congress (ANC has been South Africa 's governing party supported by its Tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions I went back to the office with good results and never looked back.

Being on assignment in the early years wasn't easy. We were not allowed to carry a camera in the open if the police were involved, so I often had to hide my camera to get the pictures I wanted. On occasion I hid my camera in a hollowed-out Bible, firing with a cable release in my pocket. At another time, at a trial in Zeerust from which the press were banned, I hid my Leica 3G in a hollowed-out loaf of bread and pretended to eat while I was actually shooting pictures; when the bread went down, I bought milk and hid the camera in the carton. And I got away with it. You had to think fast and be fast to survive in those days. [2]

Magubane photographed most of South Africa's historic moments e. g. Mandela's Rivonia trial in 1964 and also Sharpeville in 1960. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (xolíɬaɬa mandéːla born 18 July 1918 is a former President of South Africa, the first to be elected in fully representative The Rivonia Trial was a trial that took place in South Africa between 1963 and 1964, in which ten leaders of the African National Congress Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. The Sharpeville Massacre, also known as the Sharpeville shootings, occurred on March 21, 1960, when South African police began shooting on a crowd Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He later recalled I had never seen so many dead people. His editor wanted to know why he hadn't taken any close-ups. Magubane then decided I was not going to get emotionally involved, or at least not until after I have done my work. [3]

He left Drum to become a freelancer. A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer In 1967, he was employed by the Rand Daily Mail. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The Rand Daily Mail was a Johannesburg daily newspaper with an anti-apartheid bias that broke the news about the apartheid state's disinformation funding scandal in In 1969, he was sent to photograph a demonstration outside Winnie Mandela's jail cell. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (born September 26 1936 as Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela) is a South African politician who has held several government He was arrested, interrogated and then put in solitary confinement. The charges were dropped in 1970. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. However, Magubane was banned from photography for five years. In 1971 he was imprisoned again and spent 98 days in solitary confinement and then spent six months in jail. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar.

Following his release, Mugabane was assigned to cover the Soweto riots which occurred from June through to August of 1976. The Soweto uprising or Soweto Riots were a series of clashes in Soweto, South Africa on June 16 1976 between black youths and the South African Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He was arrested, beaten up and had his nose broken. Eventually, he was released at the end of 1976. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The series of pictures he took bought him international recognition and acclaim.

This led to other opportunities. He worked on assignments for Time magazine, the UN and for Sports Illustrated (where he photographed a series about the teenage runner Zola Budd). Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security Sports Illustrated is an American Sports Magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Zola Pieterse, still better known by her maiden name of Zola Budd (born 26 May 1966 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State in [2]

In 2005, Magubane spent time in hospital recovering from buckshot wounds received when he was caught in police crossfire at a funeral near Johannesburg. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. [4]

In 2006, the South African Post Office issued a miniature sheet, commemorative envelope and a special canceller on National Women's Day. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. National Women's Day is an annual public holiday in South Africa on August 9. This commemorates the march on 9 August 1956 when 20,000 women from all parts of South Africa staged a second march on the Union Buildings to protest against the pass laws. The Union Buildings form the official seat of the South African Government and also house the offices of the President of South Africa. Pass laws in South Africa were designed to segregate the population and limit severely the movements of the non-white populace They left petitions containing more than 100,000 signatures at the Prime Minister's door. The photograph used on the miniature sheet was taken by Peter Magubane during the march and features some of the women who led the 1956 march: Lilian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Sophia Williams-De Bruyn and Rahima Moosa. A souvenir sheet or miniature sheet is a small group of Postage stamps still attached to the sheet on which they were printed Lillian Masediba Ngoyi "Ma Ngoyi" ( 1911 - 13 March, 1980) was a South African anti-apartheid activist Helen Joseph ( 8 April 1905 – 25 December 1992) a South African anti- Apartheid Activist, was born in Sussex Sophia Williams-De Bruyn ( 1938 -) was a South African anti- Apartheid activist [5]

Lately, Magubane has stopped doing photojournalism and has concentrated on art photography. Photojournalism is a particular form of Journalism (the collecting editing and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast that creates images in order to tell He is concentrating on documenting the surviving tribal ways in post-apartheid South Africa in colour. These have been published under the African Heritage Series banner.

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  1. ^ Cook, John. Mother Jones is an independent Nonprofit Magazine rooted in liberal political values and known for its Investigative reporting Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (xolíɬaɬa mandéːla born 18 July 1918 is a former President of South Africa, the first to be elected in fully representative "One-Man Truth Squad", Mother Jones, 1997-05-01. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Retrieved on 2007-05-07. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses  
  2. ^ a b Barbieri, Fabio. "Peter Magubane : profiles", Contemporary Africa Database, 2003-05-07. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses Retrieved on 2007-05-07. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses  
  3. ^ Weil, Louis. "From the Publisher", Time magazine, Time, 1990-26-02. Retrieved on 2007-05-07. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses  
  4. ^ Meyer, John. "A Letter from the Publisher", Time magazine, Time, 2005-05-12. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre. Retrieved on 2007-05-07. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses  
  5. ^ a b "50th Anniversary of the Women's March to the Union Buildings", Customer Services, SA Post Office. Retrieved on 2007-05-04. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1256 - The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV  
  6. ^ "Peter Magubane", BBC News, BBC. Retrieved on 2007-05-04. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1256 - The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV  
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