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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Ballen (Roger)

DORPS, Small Towns of South Africa

Published: Clifton Publications, Cape Town, 1986

Edition: First edition

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Unpaginated (140 pages), 2 frontispieces and 64 full page photographic plates, white simulated cloth, withdrawn library stamp of Oudtshoorn Training College on the verso of the title page, dust jacket chipped at the top and bottom of the spine and a one centimetre tear at the top of the front flap – the jacket is now preserved in a Brodart protector.

\'\"Dorps, Small Towns of South Africa\" is a moving and poetic statement about a vanishing world. An American who has lived in South Africa for several years, Roger Ballen brings to his job the best of two worlds: he is both outsider and insider, he has a view uncluttered by sentiment, sometimes even brutal in its frankness; as an insider, he has a sensitive eye for nuance and mood. Above all, his view is compassionate. In stripping bare whatever and whoever his camera focuses upon, he knows how to expose \"what is mortal and unsure\". Unflinching, his camera\'s eye stares at unrelenting reality; at the same it reveals essences of experience and of being in the world. In capturing the most fleeting moments Roger Ballen yet presents in his images a quality of timelessness. And in doing so he persuades the reader to rediscover a world too easily taken for granted, forcing him not just to look at the world, but to see through it.\' André Brink.

  • Jacket Condition: Fair
  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 4to (295 x 245 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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