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English
Background information
"2009/10, Jo RACTLIFFE traced the routes of the 'Border War', fought by South Africa in Angola through the 1970s and 1980s. Following Terreno Ocupado, which focused on Luanda five years after the country's civil war ended, this photo volume 'As Terras do Fim do Mundo' shifts attention away from the urban manifestation of aftermath to the space of war itself.
Content
Jo RACTLIFFE's black and white photographs explore the idea of landscape as pathology, how past violence manifests in the landscape of the present.
Book review
"Jo RACTLIFFE's elegaic, poignant book depicts the largely abandoned African landscape, bearing the scars and remnants of the long war that ravaged Angola from the mid-1960s until the late 1980s." (© Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, Volume III)
About the South African photographer, Jo RACTLIFFE
Photo books by Jo RACTLIFFE
- Format
- HC with dust jacket, 31 x 29 x 2 cm., 128 pp., b/w ills., English