Ghetto [Hardcover]

Adam Broomberg (Author), Oliver Chanarin (Author)

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Publication Date: August 1, 2003

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin were the Creative Editors and principal photographers of Benetton's documentary magazine Colors between August 2000 and December 2002. They were both 29, one from London and the other from South Africa. They decided to go to war, so to speak, and used their remit to describe worlds that were for them unexplained by current reportage. Their anarchy lasted two years.

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Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin are the authors of Trust. Their work has been exhibited in The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Johannesburg Art Gallery, The Hasselblad Center, the National Museum of Film, Television and Photography in Bradford and at The Photographers Gallery in London.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 500 pages
• Publisher: Trolley Ltd (August 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904563007
• ISBN-13: 978-1904563006
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,613,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Most Powerful Artistic Documentaries Available, October 30, 2004

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ghetto (Hardcover)

GHETTO takes us places we never knew about or ever thought we could go. But with COLORS Magazine editors Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin there is now a beautifully designed and executed portfolio of twelve contemporary 'ghettos' from a Leisure World in the USA to Psychiatric Hospitals in Cuba and Italy, to prisons in Pollsmorr South Africa and and Italy, Star City military compound in Russia, gypsy camps in Macedonia, and Cigre, Kurdistan and Hong Kong. Over the months this project absorbed the editors approached each ghetto with the same process: identify the individuals there, ask the same basic questions about their needs, feelings, survival and at the same time photograph those interviewed and the surroundings in which they found themselves.Rarely has a volume been so non-biased and empathetic as this valuable journal. There is no sensationalism of subject matter, no abuse of individual privacy, only a thoroughly artistic survey of ghettoized groups of people and their responses to their conditions. A Very powerful document - and a very beautifully designed and constructed volume. Grady Harp, October 2004

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a masterpiece, February 9, 2004

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Ace Massive (new york, ny) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ghetto (Hardcover)

A triumph. Touching, amazing, beautiful, horrifying. Everything you ever wanted to know about human nature. Get this book.