Santu Mofokeng: Stories by Santu Mofokeng. First edition (2019). First impression. Large format set of 21 paperbacks in an archive box. In new condition. No markings. This is a brand new set. Please see pictures. Any questions please get in touch.
About Santu Mofokeng: Stories
Heralded for his nuanced and penetratingly ambivalent portrayals of township life in South Africa,Santu Mofokengfirst made his name as a member of the Afrapix collective, then as a documentary photographer for the African Studies Institute at Wits University, and finally as an independent artist. This groundbreaking series of publications is the result of an unlikely multi-year collaboration between the photographer, bookmaker Lunetta Bartz, editor/curatorJoshua ChuangandGerhard Steidl.
Together they have carefully mined and distilled over 30 years of work into 18 definitive stories that are sharply edited, simply presented and richly printed in an oversized format that recalls the golden age of picture magazines. The stories range in subject from the zealous expressiveness found in Train Church and Pedi Dancers, and Mofokengs complex, long-form depiction of late-twentieth-century indentured servitude in Labor Tenancies, to the contested spaces of Robben Island, Trauma, Landscapes and Billboards. The majority of the pictures appears here for the first time. Taken together, they reveal the achievement of a major artist of, and for, our times.
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