254pp. Hardcover binding with dust jacket. Various striking monochrome plates. Overall condition: very good. Light rubbing and spots of slight edgewear to jacket. Small creases to bottom corner of rear flap of jacket. Light yellowing to pages. Text and plates are clean. Well bound.
Inscribed by both Authors.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang-Bang_Club: The Bang-Bang Club was a group of four conflict photographers, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich, Ken Oosterbroek, and João Silva, active within the townships of South Africa between 1990 and 1994 during the transition from a herrenvolk democracy (apartheid system) to a multiracial democracy. This period included much factional violence, particularly fighting between African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters, after the lifting of the bans on both political parties. The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and other groups were also involved in the violence.
In 2000, Marinovich and Silva published The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War (2000), a book documenting their experiences. Marinovich said that the group did not see themselves as a club in the way outside observers regarded them, writing in the preface "The name gives a mental image of a group of hard-living men who worked, played and hung out together pretty much all of the time. Let us set the record straight: there never was such a creature, there never was a club, and there never were just the four of us in some kind of silver halide cult – dozens of journalists covered the violence during the period from Nelson Mandela's release from jail to the first fully democratic election.”
Size: 8vo (24 x 16cm)
London: William Heinemann, 2000
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 8vo
