Jong Afrikaner: A Self Portrait
R850Jong Afrikaner: A Self-Portrait is a series of frank and elegant portraits of urbanised, creative, engaged Afrikaners who present a challenge to preconceived ideas about Afrikaner identity and values.
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Journey Of The Tall Horse: A Story of African Theatre
R350With its mix of magnificent puppets, live actors, captivating costumes and evocative music, video projection and dance, “Tall Horse” has enchanted theatre goers world wide. This spectacular production is the result of an exceptional meeting between South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company and Mali’s Sogolon Puppet Troupe. Mervyn Millar had unique access to the production, from development workshops through rehearsals to the first performances for the world tour.
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Kay Hassan: Urbanation
R150This exhibition seeks to look at the disillusion which many Black South Africans face with the advent of democracy. “A disillusion which [we] are complacent about, especially those of us who are privileged… It is this complacency that Urbanation seeks to tear asunder, though be it in the most poetic of ways.”
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Toshio Shibata: Landscape
R1600In its interior, Japan is mountainous and green. Most of the population still lives along its coasts, but as people slowly move inland, mountain sides are torn away to create necessary horizontal space.
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Lickshot: A Photo Scrapbook
R600Lickshot is Ben Watts’s highly personalized scrapbook and travel diary. A triumph of lo-fi style, its pages are a delirious pastiche of gritty photographs, wonky polaroids, and hand-scrawled graffiti, held together by slashes of colored tape. Its contents reflect the incredible variety of Watts’s photographic subjects; from high school ice skaters, brooklyn biker gangs, lounging…
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Out of stockLife Under Democracy
R350Featuring images that capture South Africa’s status after 18 years of liberation, this collection of photographs includes personal daily reflections as well as more deliberate excursions that present democratic life in the republic. As the photographer returns to the areas he shot in the 1980s and visits some of the people and places previously photographed during apartheid, this book offers a sense of how much has changed and, in some cases, how much has remained the same. Often utilizing an iPhone camera as a means of discourse, this fascinating account focuses on the subject of social change.
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Light on a Hill: Building The Constitutional Court of South Africa
R500The new Constitutional Court of South Africa was inaugurated in 2004, ten years after the demise of apartheid and South Africa’s first democratic elections that brought the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela to power. The historic new building was the work of a team of young South African architects who had won the international competition for the design and building of the Court. Shortly after the opening of the Court, David Krut Publishing was approached to manage a competition for the design of a book on the architecture of this important building. The book design competition was won by Adele Prins of Flow Design and work on the book began in 2005.
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Lighthouses of France
R240Lighthouses are an icon of a simpler, more romantic era, which partly explains why they are so well loved today. Unlike many other countries, France has resisted the trend toward total automation, and in many small ports and seaside towns, the lighthouse keeper is still a wellknown and respected figure. World renowned lighthouse photographer Jean…
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Love, Crime and Johannesburg: A Musical
R80‘Why bother to rob a bank, when you can own a bank?’ asked Bertold Brecht. The question is reiterated in the very Brechtian Love, Crime and Johannesburg, the story of Jimmy ‘Long Legs’ Mangane and the trouble he gets into in the new South Africa. Jimmy, a people’s poet involved in the struggle, is accused of robbing a bank. He passionately asserts his innocence, claiming to work for the ‘secret secret service’.
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Magnum: photobook
R450Its pages include unpublished behind-the-scenes material, together with ephemera from the photographers’ archives about the making of their books.
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Out of stockMalick Sedibé – The Portrait of Mali
R336Born in 1936 at Soloba, in the Yanfolila Cercle, Mali, Malik Sidibé is now an internationally recognized artist and is considered the greatest African photographer. In 1962, just after Mali proclaimed its independence, Sidibé opened his studio in Bamako, devoting himself to reportage and documentary photography. His famous black-and-white images portray youth culture and dance…
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Mameena and Other Plays :The Complete Dramatic Works of H.Rider Haggard
R365H. Rider Haggard, best known as the author of King Solomon’s Mines, She, and Allan Quatermain, also wrote three full-length plays. The play Mameena, based on Haggard’s novel Child of Storm, is set in Zululand during the 1850s and deals with the struggle for the succession to the Zulu throne.
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Marc Joseph: New and Used by Damon Krukowski
R420Growing up in Ohio in the 1970s, photographer Marc Joseph was first exposed to art, writing and music in the eccentric smaller book and record shops of downtown Cleveland. Most Saturday afternoons were spent combing through the stacks in anticipation of a major future purchase–like his first, London Calling by the Clash–or studying certain talismanic…
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Marcin Owczarek – Paradise Lost
R400The contradiction appears immense: a dizzying jaunt through mythologies and their diverse visual worlds anchored not exclusively in Western tradition, bearing more than a hint of a tour de force, reinforced by echoes of John Milton’s epic work “Paradise Lost” and Sebastian Brant’s “Ship of Fools”, allusions to the political events of the 20th century and, last but by no means least, the artist’s recourse to ancient anthropological perceptions of hybrid creatures. the figures appear in their respective worlds in chaotic, yet colorful disarray.
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Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn Of Apartheid
R450This richly illustrated book brings to light a large body of photography from a major American photographer and offers a compelling history of a reprehensible system of racial conflict and social control that Bourke-White took such pains to document.
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Matisse
R170In this richly illustrated study, Lawrence Gowing takes us through Matisse’s career, assessing the lifetime of arduous labor that culminated in the apparent spontaneity of his color and ease of his imagery, and in the formidable intelligence of his compositions.
