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Santu Mofokeng : a silent solitude : photographs 1982-2011 / edited by / a cura di Simon Njami

Author
Mofokeng, Santu, 1956-2020
Additional Titles
Silent solitude : photographs, 1982-2011
Published
Milano, Italy : Skira, 2016.
New York, NY, USA : distributed in USA, Canada, Central & South America by Rizzoli International Publications Inc.
Copyright Date
©2016
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Additional Creators
Njami, Simon, 1962- and Foro Boario (Modena, Italy)

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Language Note
Text in English and Italian.
Contents
A silent solitude = Una silenziosa solitudine / Simon Njam -- People -- Significant spaces -- The family -- Spirits -- Appendix/Apparati: Biografia -- Biography -- Exhibitions/Esposizioni.
Summary
"Being a photographer at the time when Santu Mofokeng 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."--Page 4 of cover.
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ISBN
9788857232164
8857232166
9788857231938
8857231933
Note
Translations: Felicity Lutz, Jacopo Pes.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Foro Boario, Modena, Italy, March 6-May 8, 2016.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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