The South African Photography Starter Library includes monographs and anthologies of prolific SA photographers working in both an apartheid and post-apartheid milieu. Departure, Guy Tillim   Through My Lens, Alf Kumalo   Approach, Berni Searle   Messina/Musina, Pieter Hugo   Zip Zip my Brain Hart: Photographs by Angela Buckland   Soweto, Jodi Bieber   Shadow [...]

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A celebration of modern life in Soweto, these stunning and stirring photographs show the importance of this township within the collective consciousness of South Africa. Going beyond Soweto’s historic struggles with apartheid, these images instead reveal the traditional importance of art, dance, and fashion in the community’s daily life—and to showcase a new cosmopolitan energy [...]

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Author: Jodi Bieber, English, Photography, Softcover, 154pp, 247x199mm, ISBN: 9781770098060,
Price: (ZA)R 250

Have we become a society of voyeurs? The proliferation of camera phones, YouTube videos, satellite technology and reality television series would certainly suggest that this is so. If our capacity to look seems increasingly boundless, however, it also threatens to make us a nation under surveillance. Amid endless political debates about terrorism, the security camera [...]

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Author: Sandra S. Phillips, Simon Baker, Philip Brookman, Marta Gili, Carol Squiers, Richard Woodward, English, Group Show, Hardcover, Jacket, 310x245mm, full colour, 256pp, ISBN: 9781854379252,
Price: (ZA)R 600

How to capture the City That Never Sleeps in chilling moments of serenity? Award winning photographer Jean-Michel Berts does just that in this epic visual showpiece of to the world greatest city. At dawn, the streets of New York resonate with a life of its own: muted, subdued, and mysterious. That’s precisely the moment in [...]

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Author: Jean-Michel Berts, English, Photography, Hardcover, 128 Pages, 70 Images,660 x 860 mm, ISBN: 9782759401741

As king Francois I once said: “Paris is not a city, it’s a world.” Long after the swarming crowd has deserted it, at dusk or dawn, after the hum and buzz of traffic has subsided, Paris still resonates with a life of its own: muted, subdued, and mysterious. That’s precisely the moment photographer Jean-Michel Berts [...]

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Author: Photograpy by Jean-Michel Berts, Text by Pierre Assouline, English, Photography, Hardcover, Jacket / 128 Pages, 70 Images ,260x340mm, ISBN: 9782843238819,
Price: (ZA)R 550

Amen- Grassroots Football Photographer Jessica Hilltout takes us through her lens as she documents the meaning of soccer to the people of Africa. Amen: Grassroots football captures the soul of African football and the human spirit in a 208-page photographic essay. Most people’s view of Africa, if indeed they have one, tends to be simplistic. [...]

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Author: Jessica Hillout, English, NonArt, Hardvover, 208pp, 305 x 245mm, ISBN: 9780620466042,
Price: (ZA)R 600

Haunted – Contemporary Photography / Video / Performance Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world. By using dated, passe or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter and technologies, these arts can embody a [...]

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Author: Jennifer Blessing, Peggy Phelan and Nat Trotman, English, Art General, Hardcover, 208pp, 280 x 228, ISBN: 9780892073986,
Price: (ZA)R 360

Since Apartheid’s fall in 1994, South African photography has exploded from the grip of censorship onto the world stage. A key figure in this movement is Zwelethu Mthethwa, whose portraits powerfully frame black South Africans as dignified and defiant individuals, even under the duress of social and economic hardship. Photographing in urban and rural industrial [...]

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Author: Isolde Brielmaier and Okwui Enwezor, English, Hardcover, 180pp, 310 x 262 mm, ISBN: 9781597111133,
Price: (ZA)R 720

A look at the creative process of one of the most unique artists of her time. Internationally acclaimed photographer, videographer, and filmmaker Shirin Neshat first came to prominence in the mid-1990s when she exhibited her series Women of Allah, an extraordinary body of work exploring women in Islamic culture. Since then, the Iranian-born artist has [...]

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Author: Arthur Coleman Danto, English, Monograph, Hardcover, 272pp, 305 x 244mm, ISBN: 9780847833139,
Price: (ZA)R 750

Dora Maar, born Henriette Theodora Markovitch in 1907, was a talented artist in her own right. While studying painting, she soon found a passion and gift for photography, and became a prominent member of the Surrealist movement. This catalogue traces her relationship with Picasso, from the time of their first meeting in late 1935 through [...]

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Author: Anne Baldassari, English, Monograph, Hardcover, 320pp, 280 x 220mm, ISBN: 9782080305213,
Price: (ZA)R 750