South africa

Clothbound hardcover delivered with a handmade wooden support. 48,5 x 33 cm., 56 pp., 55 tritone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 750 copies

'Waiting' by Jason LARKIN is the result of an observation. This state of waiting is for him a visual echo of an intermediate state in which many inhabitants of South Africa find themselves. There is no reference to the purpose or the result of the waiting

'Some Afrikaners photographed' David GOLDBLATT explores his ambivalence towards the African elite, which at that time was trying to establish itself on the international stage. The release in 1975 - he had begun with it in 1963 - provoked strong reactions

Clothbound HC with tipped in image and embossed title (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 28 x 2 cm., 116 pp., 59 tritone ill. (9 images Duotone silver printed on black paper), text language: English

The out-of-print photo volume 'Boarding House' by Roger BALLEN shows an imaginary space of people without homes, in an abode that they are using for their immediate survival. The remnants function here as symbols of events that have occurred in this space

In this out-of-print photo volume 'There's a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends' Pieter HUGO devotes himself to those components that are 'active' under the surface and consist of a much broader spectrum. What seems to divide us at the actually unites us

'Ponte City' by Mikhael SUBOTZKY documents the history of Africa's tallest residential high-rise building using photos of the building, portraits of residents & texts in a book togehter with 17 booklets of found ephemera and archived advertising material.

In 'The Transported of Kwandebele' David GOLDBLATT documents journeys by workers as a metaphor for their arduous struggle toward freedom. In unsentimental or artifical images, the grim determination of the people to survive emerges in almost heroic terms.

Out of print photo volume 'Informal Arrangements' by German photographer Peter BIALOBRZESKI' shows inside views of South African slum huts. The color photographs were taken in 2009 in Kliptown, a suburb of Soweto, before the coming 2010 Soccer World Cup.

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