Platteland; Images from Rural South Africa [SIGNED]
- Hardcover
- New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Quarto (11-1/2" x 9-1/2"). (22)pp., 57 leaves of plates. Original white paper-coverd boards with black lettering on cover and spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. 2 frontispiece photographs. Signed "Roger Ballen" on title page. This work was first published in 1994 in Rivonia, South Africa by William Waterman.
"For almost two decades Roger Ballen, an American, has been photographing in the South African countryside, searching for aesthetic symbols to convey a sense of the place and the people... The images, though devoid of excess, stripped to their essence, are deptively simple." (Publisher)
"Platteland is an altogether extraordinary book, the most impressive sequence of portraits I've seen in years. Roger Ballen has used the power of photographyto instruct, to shock, and to discomfit with an exemplary integrity of purpose." (Susan Sontag).
"For almost two decades Roger Ballen, an American, has been photographing in the South African countryside, searching for aesthetic symbols to convey a sense of the place and the people... The images, though devoid of excess, stripped to their essence, are deptively simple." (Publisher)
"Platteland is an altogether extraordinary book, the most impressive sequence of portraits I've seen in years. Roger Ballen has used the power of photographyto instruct, to shock, and to discomfit with an exemplary integrity of purpose." (Susan Sontag).
Details
Title
Platteland; Images from Rural South Africa [SIGNED]
Author
Ballen, Roger
Binding
Hardcover
Condition
Near Fine
Publisher
St. Martin's Press: New York
Date
1996
Edition
First American edition