Santu Mofokeng: The Black Photo Album / Look at Me: 1890-1950

by Santu Mofokeng

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This book is a reproduction of an artwork, bearing the same title, by Santu Mofokeng. The work, which is as much a research project as it is a work of art, is comprised of private photographs collected, scanned, and retouched over a number of years by the artist. Each of the original images were commissioned by urban black working and middle-class families in South Africa between 1890 and 1950, a time when the government was entrenching its infamous policies towards those designated as “natives.” Painterly in style, the images evoke the artifices of Victorian photography and reveal something about...Read more
  • ISBN13 9783869303109
  • Publish Date 15 July 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country DE
  • Publisher Steidl Publishers
  • Imprint Steidl Verlag
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 152
  • Language English