Photography
Bye-bye Adolf. Hello Dolly
Taking a photograph of a bikini-clad Dolly Rathebe atop a Johannesburg mine dump was not the only thing that got Germany-born South African cameraman Jurgen Schadeberg in trouble with the apartheid police, writes Nadine Dreyer
06 September 2020 - 00:00
In any other country it would have been an uncomplicated photo shoot, a glamorous young star posing in her bikini for a magazine spread. But this was SA in the early 1950s, where life was far from simple...
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