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| Title: | Confronting Horror: Emily Hobhouse and the Concentration Camp Photographs of the South African War |
| Author: | Godby, Michael |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Periodical: | Kronos: Journal of Cape History |
| Issue: | 32 |
| Pages: | 34-48 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | concentration camps Anglo-Boer wars photography propaganda History and Exploration Women's Issues colonialism Ethnic and Race Relations Military, Defense and Arms Historical/Biographical |
| About person: | Emily Hobhouse (1860-1926) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/41056558 |
| Abstract: | Although the histories of the concentration camps of the South African War of 1899-1902 and those of World War II are very different, it is inevitable that some of the horror of the Holocaust attaches to any account of the original concentration camps and the photographs of them. The concentration camp photographs have been made to work as anti-war propaganda. In an attempt to establish the appropriate historical context for the concentration camp photographs of the South African War, this article draws on the letters of Emily Hobhouse, who was perhaps the most vociferous British opponent of the South African War. Emily Hobhouse began to acquire photographs during her time in the camps from a mixture of motives. Hobhouse herself learned to use photographs to strengthen her arguments but her letters provide valuable evidence as to how photographs were actually made in the camps. Funerary photographs, for instance, were intended for private circulation, and photographs of children and family groups served to express the importance of family relationships. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
