De Beer's Diamond Mine in the 1880s: Robert Harris and the Kimberley Searching System
- Submitting institution
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Norwich University of the Arts
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- NUA-MP-04
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/03087298.2018.1429095
- Title of journal
- History of Photography
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 4-24
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2150-7295
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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https://nua.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17232/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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A - Created and Contested Territories
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- While researching Rocks, ice and Dirty Stones (2017), Pointon discovered a series of disturbing photographs showing body searches of black miners in De Beers’ diamond mine in the late nineteenth century. She decided to reproduce only one of these but to return to research them in more detail than the book would have permitted. This article, delivered first as a paper before a diverse audience at Birkbeck, publishes both what she discovered and the tortuous route to those discoveries, thus embracing both visual analysis and consideration of the problems for historians of controversial imagery in a digital age.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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