Images of Defiance: South African Resistance Posters of the 1980s

'To speak to the people by means of posters, to address that large number who do not even read cheap newspapers, is a revolutionary method...'

From The Palette and the Flame, a book of Spanish Civil War posters

Images of Defiance: South African Resistance Posters of the 1980s tells the story of political posters in the 1980s, using 327 images of posters that formed the initial body of the SAHA poster collection (AL2446). Many of these posters were produced by UDF affiliates, trade unions, and student groups, often as part of various poster-making initiatives, such as the Community Arts Project (CAP) in Cape Town, and the Screen Training Project (STP) in Johannesburg.

Written by the Posterbook Collective, comprising postermakers Emilia Potenza, Marlene Powell, Charlotte Schaer, Judy Seidman and Maurice Smithers, and originally published by Ravan Press in 1991, Images of Defiance was reprinted by STE Publishers in August 2004 (in cooperation with the City of Johannesburg).

Copies of Images of Defiance are available for purchase from STE Publishers.