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Portfolio - Ernest Cole - Photographs 

Ernest Cole 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. After (medical examination) processing,... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Handcuffed blacks were arrested for being... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Kitchen helper dumps food on men's plates... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. Mamelodi. 1960s. Typical location has acres of... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Pensive tribesmen, newly recruited to mine... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Doornfontein railway station in rush hour.... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
“We sleep anywhere,” a boy told me, “in... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Johannesburg.
”Penny baas, please, baas,... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
Trains were too few, too full and too slow.... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Johannesburg. ”Penny baas, please, baas,... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. White man assaults tsotsi who tried to snatch... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. As white man sags to street, a second tsotsi... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. A white pocket being picked. Whites are... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Africans throng Johannesburg station platform... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. A white pocket being picked. Whites are... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
Watching a mine dance. White spectators... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.

According to the contact sheets, this was... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Africans throng Johannesburg station platform... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
Barracks-like buildings are divided into... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. As old group leaves, new one arrives, driven... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Servants are not forbidden to love. Woman... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Newspapers are her carpet; fruit crates... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.

According to Struan Robertson, these pictures... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Living in her ”kaya” out back, servant must... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.

According to Struan Robertson, the washing... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Miners are idle on Sunday. 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Men who have finished their sentences depart... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. During a “swoop,” police are everywhere,... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
Dogs are well tended by and well fed by... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.

According to Struan Robertson, the miners... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
During baptism by immersion; preacher tells... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.

According to Struan Robertson, this was... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
People who did not qualify to live in new... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Mamelodi.
Initiation ceremony of girl diviner.... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
During baptism by immersion; preacher tells... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Mamelodi.

According to Struan Robertson,... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. There is one bed in the Mogale house. Daniel... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Earnest boy squats on haunches and strains... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Riverside.
Dance time. 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. After (medical examination) processing,... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Fingerprinting is necessary step in issuance... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.

People interviewed have referred to this... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Segregation signage. 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Segregation signage. 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.

According to Struan Robertson, this is... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. At end of ride comes a big squeeze as passengers... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Mamelodi.
People returning after a long... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Miners are idle on Sunday. Man stares at... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Johannesburg.
Servants' quarters atop a... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Saxonwold, Johannesburg.
Entertaining friends... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
This wooden building is ice-cold in winter... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.

According to Struan Robertson and others,... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.
Young boy named Papa, seen here fighting... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. Mamelodi.
Initiation ceremony of girl diviner.... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.

According to Struan Robertson, these pictures... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s.

According to Struan Robertson, these pictures... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. African children who have left home to fend... 

Ernest Cole 1960

SOUTH AFRICA. 1960s. 
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