This is a collection of work by photographer Ian Berry which reflects his concern with everyday life and the human condition, and segregation in South Africa. Berry has continued visiting and working in each of the different communities throughout the political and social conflict created by apartheid. This book also contains three essays which provide a chronology of his time spent in the country. He has been the recipient of many awards, among them the Arts Council's first major photographic bursary in 1974 and Nikon's Photographer of the Year Award in 1977. He has had a number of one-man exhibitions and taken part in a broad range of shows.
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Berry, an Englishman who first made his way to South Africa as a teenager, has spent four decades documenting ordinary lives in extraordinary circumstances. After photographing the Sharpeville riots of 1960--a pivotal event--he elected to concentrate not on "the violent concentration between black and white, but the society that gave cause to it." His efforts to get "under the skin" of that tense society have resulted in a rich and enlightening chronicle of segregation that recalls the powerful photojournalism of W. Eugene Smith.
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Before being invited to become a member of the prestigious Magnum photography collective, Berry came to South Africa in 1956 as a 17-year-old Englishman with no awareness of apartheid, South Africa's politics, or its history. He found that apartheid permeated all of South African life. The young photojournalist saw the visual world constructed by that racial framework to be grotesque and fascinating and captured it on film, building a valuable record of the daily horror of apartheid. Overall, this very subjective book offers an inevitably grim look at South Africa's journey from white rule to majority rule. But its chronological layout, moving from hopelessness to hope, makes its black-and-white photographs a useful and perhaps unique visual evolution for researchers. Recommended for most collections.?David Bryant, New Canaan P.L., Ct.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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