First edition: 34 pages of letterpress, 129 black and white photographs, tape marks on the front free end papers,black cloth titled in white on the upper cover and spine, a very good copy in the slightly worn dust jacket, now preserved in a Brodart protector.
Paul Alberts, one of South Africa’s leading social documentary photographers, was born in 1946 in Pretoria. He spent his youth in Botswana and the Limpopo Province. He matriculated at Afrikaans Hoër Seunsskool in 1963 after which he attended the University of Pretoria but did not complete his studies.
In 1965 he travelled to Europe and lived in Paris. He worked as a journalist on various newspapers (Die Vaderland, Die Transvaler, The Cape Argus, Die Burger). At Die Burger he was attached to the paper’s arts page.
In 1975 he turned to freelance photography with his main interest being social documentary and theatre photography. Since 1981 he dedicated himself to the publishing of social documentary photography and special interest books.
The Borders of Apartheid, The Gallery Press, Cape Town, 1983 (compilor of text: P Alberts) was the third book of his to be published.
https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/paul-alberts
The South African Photographic Gallery 2
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: Square 4to (290 x290mm)
