The prison - Couverture rigide

Bolofo, Koto; Van Ryssen-Bolofo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3869306009 ISBN 13 : 9783869306001

Editeur : Steidl Verlag, 2014

Synopsis

Having left South Africa at the age of four as a political refugee with his parents, photographer Koto Bolofo returned to his home country with his wife in 1992, two years after Nelson Mandela had been released from prison. Bolofo got free access to the notorious and by now deserted prison of Robben Island, where Mandela had been held for the majority of the 27 years of his confinement in a cell of barely 20 square feet in Section B. The photographer and his wife eagerly began documenting the site's abandoned interiors and surroundings, dreading the prison's potential closure. Meanwhile, it was converted into a well-frequented museum in 1997 and included on the World Heritage List by UNESCO in 1999. The black-and-white photographs of this volume conspicuously favor close-up depictions of details as opposed to general views: leftover items, barbed wire fences, spacious dormitories viewed through a spyhole, the key in the lock to Mandela's cell (which is so tiny it cannot be taken as a whole)--all this is conveying the gloomy sense of claustrophobia and suppression that characterize the place. The camera is constantly searching for the few rays of light that penetrate the ubiquitous grimness and silence of cruelty.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Sounds the call to come together, And united we shall stand, Let us live and strive for freedom, In South Africa our land.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Steidl Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 3869306009
• ISBN 13: 9783869306001
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 112