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Polaroid’s Experiment in South Africa
Fifty years ago this month, the high-profile U.S. photography and optics firm attempted to take action against apartheid. The project’s mixed results—and some details behind the story—remain relevant a half-century later.
A policeman checks the identity card of a Black citizen under South Africa’s Pass Laws, which controlled the movement and employment of the country’s Black South Africans until 1986. [Central Press / Getty Images]
Fifty years ago this month, the high-profile U.S. photography and optics firm attempted to take action against apartheid. The project’s mixed results—and some details behind the story—remain relevant a half-century later.
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