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Santu Mofokeng
A Silent Solitude. Photographs 1982-2011
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This book is ideal for readers interested in photography, South African history, and politically engaged art. It will also appeal to those who appreciate visual storytelling intertwined with personal and social narratives.
Being a photographer at the time when Santu Mofokeng (b 1956, Johannesburg) decided to become one was not an unmotivated act. By photographing his people, the places, the faces and the streets, Mofokeng speaks to us about himself. Because all stories always begin with the person who tells them. This book deals with his work.
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Being a photographer at the time when Santu Mofokeng (b. 1956, Johannesburg) decided to become one was not an unmotivated act. A psychological, moral and sometimes physical war was being fought and South Africa was its arena. Photography could not afford to be an artistic abstraction. It was both a political and intellectual commitment. It was anger, it was revolt. But it remained, in spite of everything, a form of writing and that is how Mofokeng approached it.
Not like his country's freedom fighters who denounced the iniquity of the ideology behind apartheid, but as the very special witness of a story which, until then, had been suppressed. By photographing his people, the places, the faces and the streets, Mofokeng speaks to us about himself. Because all stories always begin with the person who tells them. And they come back to the teller in the end.
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ISBN: 9788857232164
Publisher: Skira
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 23 February 2017
Country: Italy
Imprint: Skira
Illustration: Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout
Contributors:
- Edited by Simon Njami
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 240.0mm
Height: 280.0mm
Weight: 1780g
Pages: 256
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About the Author
Simon Njami is a Paris-based independent curator, lecturer, and art critic. He was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Revue Noire, a journal of contemporary African and extra-occidental art.
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