Isaac Schapera�s photos

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The fate of Isaac Schapera’s photographic collection is strange and sad. Soon after we had started the Phuthadikobo Museum in Mochudi in 1976, I visited Schapera in London and he gave me his entire collection of b/w negatives.

I quickly found appropriate firms there able to make prints from some of those negatives which varied from the very large to the fairly small. In Mochudi we soon had many of those prints on display – probably the first time that this had happened, But after a time, I became uneasy about holding those negatives.

I told Schapera that whilst I felt that his photos should be available in this country, I was unable to recommend any institution which I felt had the capability of caring for, and managing those photos. Schapera accepted my advice and suggested that I return the negatives to him in London.

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