South African Visual Culture, Jeanne van Eeden & Amanda du Preez (eds.) : book review

In the past several years, visual culture studies have emerged as a new interdisciplinary field of inquiry. In fact, over the past five years, several introductory texts on visual culture have been published that address the production of visual imagery and its interpretations. According to Nicholas Mizroeff in his foreword, South African Visual Culture marks "the closure of the first moment of visual culture and the phase of globalisation that began with the televised release from prison of Nelson Mandela (v)."