South africa

In Guy TIILIM's 'Museum of the Revolution' his Street Photography in cities including Johannesburg, Nairobi among others shows a new reality: it differs from the economic stagnation caused by the socialist politics that accompanied African nationalism.

PB. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 31,5 X 1,5 cm., 56 pp., 70 color & b/w ills., text language: French

Out-of-print 'Fashion Tribes. Global Street Style' by Daniele TAMAGNI presents subcultures from Africa, America & Asia. Experts shed light on all facets of style. A comprehensive overview of the world of clothing, showsing the power that clothing can have

'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.

This expanded edition contains images that are not contained in Mikhael SUBOTZKY's original photo volume 'Ponte City', which is out of print. A complex portrait of a place shaped by competing projections - refuge and monstrous place as well as dreamland.

'Photographs. 1980s to now ', contains for the first time a selection of the work of the South African photographer Jo RACTLIFFE. Looking over the past 35 years, it contains images from important photo essays as well as works that have never been shown.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 31 x 2,5 cm., 189 pp. + inner text with interviews, 93 b/w ills., text language: English

In 'As Terras do Fim do Mundo', Jo RACTLIFFE traces the routes of the 'border war' that South Africa waged in Angola from the mid-1960s to the 80s. The focus is on the war zone itself and how past violencemanifests itself in the landscape of the present.

An exploration the 'Rainbow Nation', over two decades. For South Africa, Democracy is a hard won freedom that brought both rewards & struggles. The wealth for a new black elite fostered a frenzied aspirational spirit amongst the poorer urban classes, too.

The out-of-print book 'First Color' by Magnum photographer Inge MORATH spans from her photographs from Spain (1954/55) to the pictures from Ireland and Romania in 1958 to her documentation of the Gaza Strip in 1960. It shows, her unique ability to compose

'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

In his photo book 'Tales from the City of Gold'Jason LARKIN shows life in out-of-place legacies of the former gold mines in South Africa. He documents as well as illuminates the stubbornly ignored reality of those places & their denied ecological legacies

'Platinum' by Jason LARKIN and writer Jack Shenker explores the Marikana massacre and the physicality and context of South Africa's platinum industry. The photo volume breaks with the common rules: it combines large format posters with a concise essay.

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

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 37,5 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 64 pp., color ills., text language: English

In 'This Must Be The Place' we see how the photographer Pieter HUGO oscillates between political commitment, documentary responsibility and their relationship to his own (image) aesthetics. It includes 'The Hyena Men', 'Nollywood' and 'Permanent Error'.

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

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.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 23 cm., 144 pp., 45 b/w ills., text language: English

The out-of-print volume 'The Hasselblad Award 2006' presents works by South African photographer David GOLDBLATT from 2004 to 2006 that address the country's situation in the post-apartheid era, including a number of his new triptychs on folding panels.