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Johannesburg Portraits
Author | : Mike Alfred |
Publsiher | : Jacana Media |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1919931333 |
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Tells the story of Johannesburg's geography; its economic, political, and social history; and its vibrant personality through the lives of prominent Johannesburg citizens.
Portrait with Keys The City of Johannesburg Unlocked
Author | : Ivan Vladislavic |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2009-06-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780393071511 |
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“Surely one of the most ingenious love letters—full of violence, fear, humour, and cunning—ever addressed to a city.” —Geoff Dyer This dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage about a metropolis since Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City. Through precisely crafted snapshots, Ivan Vladislavic observes the unpredictable, day-today transformation of his embattled city: the homeless using manholes as cupboards, a public statue slowly cannibalized for scrap. Most poignantly he charts the small, devastating changes along the postapartheid streets: walls grow higher, neighborhoods are gated off, the keys multiply. Security—insecurity?—is the growth industry. Vladislavic, described as “one of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today” (André Brink), delivers “one of the best things ever written about a great, if schizophrenic, city, and an utterly true picture of the new South Africa” (Christopher Hope).
The World Atlas of Street Photography
Author | : Jackie Higgins |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780300207163 |
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Collects street photographs from noted photographers of cities around the world, from New York and Sao Paolo to Paris and Sydney.
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies
Author | : Jeremy Tambling |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 1977 |
Release | : 2022-10-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783319624198 |
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This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.
South African American Survey
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : South Africa |
ISBN | : UCAL:$C177202 |
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Soweto Blues
Author | : Gwen Ansell |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2005-09-28 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0826417531 |
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Tells the remarkable story of how jazz became a key part of South Africa's struggle in the 20th century, and provides a fascinating overview of the ongoing links between African and American styles of music. Ansell illustrates how jazz occupies a unique place in South African music.Through interviews with hundreds of musicians, she pieces together a vibrant narrative history, bringing to life the early politics of resistance, the atmosphere of illegal performance spaces, the global anti-apartheid influence of Hugh Masakela and Miriam Makeba, as well as the post-apartheid upheavals in the national broadcasting and recording industries.
Photography in and out of Africa
Author | : Kylie Thomas,Louise Green |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2018-02-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317358244 |
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This book offers a range of perspectives on photography in Africa, bringing research on South African photography into conversation with work from several other places on the continent, including Angola, the DRC, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. The collection engages with the history of photography and its role in colonial regulatory regimes; with social documentary photography and practices of self-representation; and with the place of portraits in the production of subjectivities, as well as contemporary and experimental photographic practices. Through detailed analyses of particular photographs and photographic archives, the chapters in this book trace how photographs have been used both to affirm colonial worldviews and to disrupt and critique such forms of power. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Dynamics.
Portrait with Keys
Author | : Ivan Vladislavic |
Publsiher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2011-10-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781415203194 |
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This is a book about Johannesburg and one man’s place in it: a provocative, teasing, revealing, analytical and poetic text on the city and the life rooted in its concrete streets. A high-water mark in Ivan Vladislavić’s writing, Portrait with Keys is a sprawling yet comprehensive portrait of his Joburg. His gaze roams freely across the decades, but the focus falls on the eve of the millennium. Neither a novel in any conventional sense nor a collection of short stories, this chain of lyrical texts brings together memoir, history, snapshots, meditations, asides on arts and – not least – observations on that essential urban accessory, the Gorilla steering lock. Home, habit, change, memory, mortality, friendship, ghosts, gardens, walking, falling, selling and stealing are all part of this unique dossier of city life. Portrait with Keys is an extraordinary work, both an oblique self-portrait of the author and a vivid recovery of where we have been all along.