On the back cover is the story of how the Cape Provincial Institute of Architects commissioned Dutch photographer Jansje Wissema to record the last days of District Six, how her negatives were not printed as she died soon after completing the commission and how the negatives were discovered (literally in a shoebox) almost twenty years later to form the main content of this magnificent production.
Most copies of the first (1986) edition of this book were numbered and signed by Adam Small. This unmarked, fine copy is an exception to that rule, while maintaining the production values of the first edition (browner sepia duotone reproduction of the photographs and quality of the materials used).
Drawn-on card covers printed in three colours and laminated; plain black "endpapers" front and back; 12 pp grey matt section with poem "Rising Up" by Adam Small; and 32 pp gloss art section with duotone sepia reproductions of 74 of Jansje Wissema's evocative photographs of people and places in Cape Town's District Six, which was demolished in 1968 in terms of the then Government's Group Areas Act.
- Binding Condition: Mint
- Overall Condition: Mint
- Size: 300 x 247
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