
The Way I See It: A Memoir by Jürgen Schadeberg
ISBN: 9781770105294
Picador Africa, 29 November 2017
Paperback, 480 pages
Many of the photographs are as familiar as they are iconic: Nelson Mandela gazing through the bars of his prison cell on Robben Island; a young Miriam Makeba smiling and dancing; Hugh Masekela as a schoolboy receiving the gift of a trumpet from Louis Armstrong; the Sophiatown removals; the funeral of the Sharpeville massacre victims ...
Photographer Jürgen Schadeberg was the man behind the camera, recording history as it unfolded in apartheid South Africa. His empathy for the displaced, the persecuted and the marginalised was already deeply rooted by the time he came to South Africa from Germany in 1950 and began taking pictures for the fledgling Drum magazine.