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Cole, Ernest, 1940-1990

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Personal name headingCole, Ernest, 1940-1990
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Variant(s)Kole, Ernest Levi Tsoloane, 1940-1990
Associated countrySouth Africa
LocatedNew York (N.Y.)
Birth date1940-03-21
Death date1990-01-16
Place of birthEersterus (Pretoria, South Africa)
Place of deathNew York (N.Y.)
AffiliationNew York Institute of Photography
Wolsey Hall (University of Oxford)
Profession or occupationPhotographers
Found inHouse of bondage, 1968: title page (Ernest Cole) vita (Ernest Cole, member of the Bapedi tribe, b. Mar. 21, 1940, in Eersterust, Pretoria, South Africa)
Ernest Cole, photographer, 2010: title page (Ernest Cole) page 17 (b. 1940; d. 1990) page 224 (Ernest Levi Tsoloane Kole)
Dictionary of African Biography, accessed June 12, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cole, Ernest; Ernest Levi TsoloaneKole; photographer; born 21 March, 1940 in Eersterust, South Africa; studied by correspondence through Wolsey Hall, Oxford; enrolled in correspondence course at New York Institute of Photography; worked as assistant to a Chinese photographer; layout assistant and picture editor of Drum (1958); was a photographer for Bantu World (1959) and a freelance photographer for Drum, Rand Daily Mail, The World, The Sunday Express, communist paper New Age; began a photographic project, study of life under apartheid; was picked up by the police (1966) and went into exile in New York; published his photographic book House of Bondage with the Magnum photographic agency, New York (1967), it was immediately banned in South Africa; carried out a photographic documentary projects, United States (1967-1971); died 16 January, 1990 in New York City, New York, United States)