The Great Traditions . In the year 2000 a young photographer called David Southwood held an exhibition that to some would have looked rotten with fin de siecle decadence.
It featured an assortment of men and women in whom flickers of Southwood's manner and morphology could be glimpsed, and was entitled, "People Who Other People Think Look Like Me." Coming ten years after Nelson Mandela's release from prison, and six years after South Africa's landmark elections in 1994, the exhibition could be taken to epitomise the liberated, post-political sensibilities that flourished as the country shed its pariah status in the world at large and self-congratulatingly began reinventing itself as a new and improved Rainbow Nation. Read wholearticle ...
