Beyond the Barricades

Beyond the BarricadesFrom the foreword: Beyond The Barricades: Popular Resistance in South Africa in the 1980sPhotographs by Twenty South African Photographers. Foreword by the Reverend Frank Chikane. Essay by Andr Odendaal. A Kliptown Book with the cooperation of Afrapix and the Centre for Documentary Photography, Cape Town. Many of the pictures in Beyond the Barricades could not be taken today in South Africa. The government, which declared a "State of Emergency" in a

His many talents and mastery of materials—from fabrics to plastics—extended from haute couture to ready-to-wear

Part I explores Ballen’s formative artistic influences and his later rediscovery of boyhood through photography

This book gathers the series

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Interrogations is the result of his personal quest to uncover the hidden meaning of the bloody 20th Century

he has participated in Audiovisuales sin Fronteras

this book frames the Zealy daguerreotypes as works of urgent engagement

The works are lavishly illustrated in this catalogue

From HD cinematic images to abstract manifestations of data

of police oppression

the piece resembles a rolling tumbleweed

and the University of California's Spendlove Award for his contribution to tolerance