44pp. Softcover binding. Various fine monochrome photographs throughout. Condition: Very good. Slight rubbing and spots of slight edgewear to covers, minor bumps to top corners of covers and pages, small crease to front cover, old sticker on rear cover. Very small bumps to bottom corners of first couple of pages. Text and photographs are clean. Well bound.
Signed by Adam Small. Copy no. 901 of a limited edition of 1000.
From synopsis of book on rear cover: “Recognising that District Six was not only a vital community but contained architecture abounding with felicities and of great historical importance, the Cape Provincial Institute of Architects commissioned Dutch-born photographer Jansje Wissema, one of South Africa’s most celebrated photographers, to make a record of the buildings, street life and people of the area. Her portfolio has become one of South Africa's most poignant historical documents... Wissema’s negatives were preserved by the Cape Provincial Institute of Architects....with the help of Cape Town Photographer Alain Proust, who prepared all the prints, Jansje Wissema’s loving picture of District Six has been brought back to life. In this book, a selection of her complete portfolio has been complemented by a text specially written for the occasion by one of District Six’s greatest interpreters, Adam Small.”
Size: 4to (32 x 24,7cm)
Johannesburg: Fontein, 1986
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 4to
