Life Itself: Photography and South Africa
R695South Africa’s visual history from colonialism to democracy, through iconic photography.
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MESSINA/MUSINA
R520My essay comprises family portraits, landscapes and still lifes. This was largely determined by the equipment I was using at the time: a tripod-mounted, large-format camera.
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Out of stockPhoto book! Photo-book! Photobook! The South African photobook 1945–2025
Photo book! Photo-book! Photobook! is the first sustained study of the South African photobook, tracing its difficult cosmopolitan emergence during the decades of apartheid (1945–90) and remarkable currency in photographic and artistic practices of the democratic era
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Roger Ballen: End of the Game
R500The exhibition chronicles the practice of unrestrained hunting which has contributed to the ecological devastation we are currently facing.
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Some Afrikaners Revisited, David Goldblatt
R1300The work of David Goldblatt – as recipient of the 2006 Hasselblad Foundation Award undoubtedly South Africa’s most prominent active photographer – reflects a life-long exploration of the relationship between individual South Africans and the society they live in. His first extended photographic essay was compiled in the 1960s. When it was finally published in 1975 as Some Afrikaners Photographed, the book created quite a stir locally. Eventually most of the small print-run had to be sold off for a song.
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Out of stockTate Photography: Sabelo Mlangeni
R300This moving book explores the work of Sabelo Mlangeni, and the stories he tells through his photography of communities on the periphery of society. Taking time to build relationships, he gains trust and, eventually, access to inner circles and sacred spaces. Mlangeni’s work seeks to recentre themes of friendship, love and joy in the face of ever-present risk. Above all, his images tell stories of seeking out your people, choosing a family and building a home, wherever you find yourself.
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The Chaos Precinct: Johannesburg as a Port City
R420The Chaos Precinct presents a compelling, brave – at times, lyrical – narrative of how migrant Ethiopians have shaped a trading post in Johannesburg’s inner city.
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The Game Changer: Bantu Holomisa
R300Bantu Holomisa is one of South Africa’s most respected and popular political figures. Born in the Transkei in 1955, he attended an elite school for the sons of chiefs and headmen. While other men his age were joining Umkhonto weSizwe, Holomisa enrolled in the Transkeian Defence Force and rose rapidly through the ranks. As…
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Waiting
R250Omitting any reference to the purpose or outcome of each wait, Larkin simply records, beside each image, the duration of the wait. J
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Wayne Barker – Artist’s monographs
R150Wayne Barker’s artistic career spans almost two decades, marked by a bitter-sweet mix of politics, poetry, and a passion for subversion. Tracking that career from apartheid South Africa’s most violent years to a new democratic dispensation, the artist’s monograph explores the contradictory impulses of “African identity”.
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Willem Boshoff: Word forms and language shapes 1975 – 2007
R1500Exhibition catalogue Standard Bank Gallery Johannesburg 25 September 2007 to 1 December 2007. Contains a fascinating 24pp interview with the artist and many colour photographs. 28 x 30cm 120pp.
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Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness
R1995Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness is the long-awaited monograph from one of the most powerful visual activists of our time. The book features over ninety of Muholi’s evocative self-portraits, each image drafted from material props in Muholi’s immediate environment.
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Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness Vol.2
R2300The highly anticipated second volume to the widely acclaimed and celebrated self-portrait series, Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness
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Zanele Muholi Exhibition Book
R780Created to accompany one of the most exciting exhibitions of 2020, this stunning paperback catalogue presents the full breadth of Muholi’s photographic and activist practice.
Richly illustrated, it includes images from the key series Muholi has produced over the past twenty years, as well as never-before-published and recent works. The exhibition book also features six newly commissioned essays exploring their work, as well as a full glossary and chronology.
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Out of stockA City Refracted
Johannesburg’s inner city has, since the mining town’s formation, served as the first stop for new arrivals. As such it has always been vibrant and in a constant state of flux. I initially started photographing the area in the nineties when racial segregation laws were being lifted and black South Africans had begun moving from…
