Re-turning history: Helen Levitt, Jansje Wissema, the Burning Museum Collective, and photographs of children in the streets of New York and Cape Town

This paper focuses on the work of two photographers-Helen Levitt and Jansje Wissema- who extensively documented children playing in streets and produced images of the drawings made by children on city streets and walls. These images are read in relation to the work of the Burning Museum Collective,...

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Published inCritical arts Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 122 - 136
Main Author Thomas, Kylie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Durban Routledge 02.01.2018
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Apartheid
Archives & records
Artists
Children
Children & youth
District Six
forced removals
Gentrification
Helen Levitt
Jansje Wissema
Levitt, Helen
Museums
Neoliberalism
New York
Photography
Politics
Resistance
Restitution
Streets
Transnationalism
Urban areas
Walls
Wissema, Jansje
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ISSN0256-0046
1992-6049
DOI10.1080/02560046.2017.1418015

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Summary:This paper focuses on the work of two photographers-Helen Levitt and Jansje Wissema- who extensively documented children playing in streets and produced images of the drawings made by children on city streets and walls. These images are read in relation to the work of the Burning Museum Collective, a group of artists based in Cape Town, South Africa, who draw on archival images and make use of photography as a form of resistance. The paper argues for the way in which an engagement with photographs of urban spaces can provide a means for thinking about transnational histories, neoliberalism, gentrification, forced removals, and the politics of restitution.
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ISSN:0256-0046
1992-6049
DOI:10.1080/02560046.2017.1418015