Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

September 08, 2026 00:03:15
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Sep 08 2026 | 00:03:15

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Show Notes

Haitian director Raoul Peck has long been in the forefront of radical cinema. His recent documentaries include I Am Not Your Negro, the incisive portrait of James Baldwin from 2016, and Orwell: 2+2=5, which I reviewed last year. Right before the Orwell film he directed a portrait of another artist, not as famous as Baldwin, but a significant one: Ernest Cole: Lost and Found. Ernest Cole was a South African photographer who documented life under apartheid in the 1950s and early ’60s. His work ranged from shots of people in the street to black people in the mines and in “banishment…

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