Remarkable South Africans
R300Remarkable South Africans is a book that sings the song of unsung heroes and heroines.
It tells of South Africans who take it upon themselves to work for a better future for the country – the custodians of ubuntu.
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Ricky Lauren ,Cuisine,Lifestyle and Legend of the Double R L Ranch
R480Inspired by the colors, flavors, and life at her Colorado ranch, Ricky Lauren presents an epic and unprecedented tribute to the West, as both a great destination and a state of mind.
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Robert Lebeck: Tokyo/ Moscow/ Leopoldville
R750Three Book Set
Photographer Robert Lebeck was interested not only in “the event” in and of itself, but also in the stories on the fringes and the people behind the images. Lebeck was frequently to be found in that elusive terrain most photographers dream of: the right place at the right time.
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Robin Rhode – Who Saw Who
R250Robin Rhode’s art uses the barest of means to comment on urban poverty, the politics of leisure and the commodification of youth culture. The artist has a reputation for brilliantly inventive performances, photography and video animation in which drawing plays a crucial role. In his works, which are often created on the street, Rhode interacts…
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Roger Ballen – Boarding House (Hardcover)
R1000“Boarding House” shows an imaginary space of transient residence, of coming and goings, of people without homes, sheltering in an abode that they are using for their immediate survival. The structure is basic and fundamental and it is furnished with objects that are necessarily for an elementary existence. Remnants function here as physical symbols of events that have occurred in this space; broken pieces of a functional reality exist as the leftovers of scenarios that were played out here.
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Roma, Citta Di Mezzo
Images of Rome, focusing on the architecture, with few people in the photos. Leporello bound, so the book folds out into one long photo display. Unpaginated, color throughout.
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Sam Hopkins – Contact Zones #2
R200800×600 Volume 2 presents the work of visual artist Sam Hopkins, who lives and works in Nairobi. Hopkins, who has been educated in Kenya, Cuba, at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and in Edinburgh, is a crucial representative of a certain young, transnational art scene in Nairobi. The scene is oriented towards, and part of,…
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Sarah:The Life of Sarah Bernhardt (Jewish Lives)
R275Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career—redefining the very nature of her art—to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the amputation of her leg, she was performing under bombardment for soldiers during World War I, as well as crisscrossing America on her ninth American tour.
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Schwitters in Britain
R400Associated at various times with Dada, Constructivism and Surrealism, Schwitters produced paintings, collages, sound pieces, sculpture and installation works, as well as journalism, criticism, poetry and short stories. Forced to flee Germany in 1936, Schwitters took refuge first in Norway and then, after the German invasion of Norway, in Britain, where he was interned initially…
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Out of stockSeydou Keita: Photographs, Bamako, Mali 1948-1963
R1500Seydou Keïta was born in Bamako, Mali in 1921, then part of the colony of French Sudan and a bustling transportation hub on the route to Dakar. With a Kodak Brownie given to him by his uncle, Keïta took up photography at the age of fourteen, going on to establish what would become Bamako’s most successful portraiture enterprise of the 1950s and 60s.
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Shades of Nature
Following the ascendance of Art of Nature, Heinrich van den Berg challenges convention to resounding success in the black-and-white sequel Shades of Nature. His fearless approach inspires the reader to see the hidden depths of his images, to subjectively appreciate both the aesthetic and the emotional.
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Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art
R550The accompanying catalogue to the first major exhibition to consider the relationship between the photographic medium and the history of abstraction in the twentieth century, on display at London’s Tate Modern.The exhibition catalogue will be arranged in a broadly chronological way to tell the story of photography and its relationship with abstraction from around 1915 to the present day, and will include historic works in a variety of media from painting and sculpture to montage and kinetic installations.
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Snapshots of Bloomsbury
R375In this enthralling portrait Maggie Humm makes available for the first time a wealth of barely known photographs, both amaeur and professional, that cast new light on the private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell as well as the historical, cultural and artistic milieux of their circle in Bloomsbury and beyond. We visit…
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So Now Then
R400This book features the artists: Shelby Lee Adams, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Chien-Chi Chang, Julio Grinblatt, An-My Le, Susan Meiselas, Boris Mikhailov, Simon Norfolk, Trent Parke, Weng Peijun, Paul Shambroom, Massimo Vitali, and, Michael Wesely. It also contains essays by David Campany, Martha Langford, and, Jan-Erik Lundstrom.
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Soccer Chic :Soccer Life the South African Way
R200A window on the world of South African football culture. Included some great photographs, especially those of some of the originally dressed fans.
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South African Cinema 1896-2010
R400Taking an inclusive approach to South African film history, this volume represents an ambitious attempt to analyze and place in appropriate sociopolitical context the aesthetic highlights of South African cinema from 1896 to the present. Thoroughly researched and fully documented by renowned film scholar Martin Botha, the book focuses on the many highly creative…
