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"Handcuffed blacks were arrested for being in white area illegally." Black South African photographer Ernest Cole describes his image from the early 1960s in his book House of Bondage. (© Ernest Cole Family Trust / Courtesy the Hasselblad Foundation)

“Handcuffed blacks were arrested for being in white area illegally.” Black South African photographer Ernest Cole describes his image from the early 1960s in his book House of Bondage. (© Ernest Cole Family Trust / Courtesy the Hasselblad Foundation)

“Handcuffed blacks were arrested for being in white area illegally.” Black South African photographer Ernest Cole describes his image from the early 1960s in his book House of Bondage. (© Ernest Cole Family Trust / Courtesy the Hasselblad Foundation)