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- 1970s (Creation)
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Photographs and Negative film
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Biographical history
Fraser MacLean, originating from Nova Scotia in the USA, came to South Africa in the mid-1970s, and was the chief photographer at the Daily Dispatch in East London, where he worked together with Barbara Hutmacher whom he had met earlier back in the US and who would later become his wife. His photographs appear in her book entitled "In Black and White: Voices of Apartheid", first published in Great Britain by Junction Books in 1980. Both returned to the USA in the late 1970s, after the South African Government refused to renew Fraser MacLean's temporary residency. Most of Fraser MacLean's photographs remained with the Daily Dispatch newspaper.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Fraser MacLean died in July 2004. Barbara Hutmacher MacLean offered his collection of photographs to the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand in March 2014, and it was agreed to deposit them at the Historical Papers Research Archive.
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Of particular interest are the photographs of the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement Steven Bantu Biko, whom he photographed for an article by Barbara MacLean in the Los Angeles Times editorial pages.
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Permission to publish must be obtained from the Historical Papers Research Archive, University of the Witwatersrand.
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Archivist's note
Some of the photographs from sections 1-5 have been digitised and can be seen under the respective item number.