Background information, content
"In the postwar period, the South African government gradually developed policies that would forever preserve the rights and privileges of a white minority-apartheid. While racial prejudice and tension create difficulties in many other societies, only in South Africa was segregation institutionalized and regulated, resulting in bizarre and often absurd situations. At 17, he made his way first to South Africa, beginning a career in which he took on an ordinary life under extraordinary circumstances. While working as a photojournalist for Drum, the black community's magazine, he was present at the Sharpeville riots in 1960; over the following decades he would return to South Africa many times, capturing many of its most important moments. In the 1990s, the collapse of apartheid and the rise of Mandela led to a remarkable form of reconciliation, concurrent with an alarming escalation of urban problems and violence. Once again, Ian BERRY was back with his camera, recording the election and its aftermath." (freely translated text, © Phaidon Publishing, 1996)
About British Magnum photographer Ian BERRY (b.1934, in Lancashire)
Photo books by, about and with works by Ian BERRY
- Format
- HC, 26 x 30 x 3 cm. (11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in.), 256 pp., highly illustrated, English