Photography (SA)

Front cover of Dorps by Roger Ballen
Dorps - Roger Ballen

Dorps: Small Towns in South Africa by Roger Ballen, an American photographer who has travelled widely throughout South Africa, visiting its scattered towns and villages. During this time he developed a unique vision towards little-known corners and artifacts, trading stores, old houses and humble people.

ZAR 1,200.00
Front Cover of Dorps by Roger Ballen
Dorps - Roger Ballen

Dorps: Small Towns of South Africa by Roger Ballen is the first of the photographers photo essays. It is about the small towns or 'dorps' of SA.

ZAR 1,200.00
Front Cover of Silver Images by A D Bensusan
Silver Images - A D Bensusan

Silver Images: History of Photography in Africa by A D Bensusan is the fascinating story of the camera in Africa and particularly Southern Africa.

ZAR 750.00
Front Cover of Mountains of Southern Africa by David Bristow
Mountains of Southern Africa - David Bristow

Mountains of Southern Africa by David Bristow takes a close look at the high altitude world and the montane plants that flourish in this rigorous environment, the animals that roam the slopes and the raptors that soar among the peaks. The book looks at the mountains in SA's history and the people that chose to live in a harsh environment. Beautifully photographed by Clive Ward.

ZAR 90.00
Front cover of A Vision Of The Past by Mona de Beer & Brian Johnson Barker
A Vision Of The Past - de Beer & Barker

A Vision Of The Past: South Africa in Photographs: 1843-1910 by Mona de Beer & Brian Johnson Barker is a fascinating photographic survey of life in South Africa from the early years of the Victorian era to the time of Union in 1910.

ZAR 450.00
Front cover of Mzabalazo by Barry Feinberg & Andre Odendaal
Mzabalazo - Barry Feinberg & Andre Odendaal

Mzabalazo: A Pictorial History Of the African National Congress by Barry Feinberg & Andre Odendaal shows archived photographs from the ANC's days as a liberation movement. First published as a paperback format of a portable exhibition of posters in 1994.

ZAR 120.00
Front cover of Architectural Beauty of the Old Cape As Seen by Arthur Elliot
Architectural Beauty of the Old Cape as seen by Arthur Elliot - Hans Fransen

Architectural Beauty of the Old Cape As Seen by Arthur Elliot: Photographs of houses and farmsteads now largely demolished or ruined, taken at the beginning of the twentieth century is a collection of back and white photographs selected and annotated by Hans Fransen, curator of the Stellenbosch Museum.

ZAR 800.00
Front cover of The Barnett Collection: Volume II by Denis Godfrey
The Barnett Collection: Volume II - Denis Godfrey

The Barnett Collection: South Africa and Johannesburg at the Turn of the Century; Volume II by Denis Godfrey is a selection from The Star newspaper's Barnett Collection of photographs of Johannesburg and includes photographs taken during the Anglo-Boer War and in the other major South African towns and cities.

ZAR 200.00
Front Cover of In Boksburg by David Goldblatt
In Boksburg - David Goldblatt

In Boksburg by David Goldblatt stands as one of the most important observations of a middle-class white community in South Africa during the apartheid years. Published in 1982, it presents an accumulation of everyday details from the community of Boksburg through which a larger portrait is revealed of white societal values within a racially divided state.

ZAR 8,500.00
Front cover of South Africa: The Structure of Things Then by David Goldblatt
South Africa: The Structure of Things Then - David Goldblatt

South Africa: The Structure of Things Then by acclaimed South African photographer David Goldblatt is the culmination of fifteen years of photography, research, and writing.

ZAR 650.00
Front cover of South Africa by Gerald Hoberman
South Africa - Gerald Hoberman

South Africa: Photographs in celebration of the splendour and diversity of this jewel of the African continent by Gerald Hoberman is a place of wonder, intrigue and glorious colour. With awe he has recorded the beauty of sunrise over God's Window, the russet colours of autumn in the Cape winelands, and the majestic thrust of the Drakensberg Mountains.

ZAR 135.00
Front cover of Johannesburg: Images and Continuities by Kallaway & Pearson
Johannesburg: Images and Continuities - Kallaway & Pearson

Johannesburg: Images and Continuities: A History of Working Class Life through Pictures (1885-1935) by Peter Kallaway and Richard Pearson is a pictorial history which engages many significant themes in the making of the modern Witwatersrand. Johannesburg's first century (1886-1986) changed the course of South African history.

ZAR 300.00
Front Cover of Mandela by Alf Kumalo and Es'kia Mphahlele
Mandela - Alf Kumalo and Es'kia Mphahlele

Mandela: Echoes of an Era by Alf Kumalo and Es'kia Mphahlele is the story of Nelson Mandela's life intertwined with an account of 41 years of the African National Congress Party. Text by Mphahlele and b&w photos by Kumalo.

ZAR 150.00
Front cover of Cape Flats Details by Chris Ledochowski
Cape Flats Details - Chris Ledochowski

Cape Flats Details: Life and Culture in the Townships of Cape Town by Chris Ledochowski is a book of photography showing the lives of people who live on the Cape Flats. "Cape Flats" refers to the vast stretch of exposed sandy wetlands that lie north of Table Mountain and which now forms a large part of the metropolitan region of Cape Town.

ZAR 950.00
Front cover of Soweto by Lee and Magubane
Soweto - Lee & Magubane

Soweto by Marshall Lee and Peter Magubane presents the work of famous photographer Peter Magubane.

ZAR 250.00
Front cover of Oorwinning Sonder Roem by Andre Malan
Oorwinning Sonder Roem - Andre Malan

Oorwinning Sonder Roem: 'n Fotoalbum van herinnerings aan die Anglo-Boereoorlog, 1899-1902 by Andre Malan presents a photo album of memories of the Anglo-Boer War.

Afrikaans text.

ZAR 300.00
front cover of A Camera in Quathlamba by M.L. Pearse
A Camera in Quathlamba - M.L. Pearse

A Camera in Quathlamba: Photographing the Drakensberg by M.L. Pearse is a unique record of one of the most beautiful mountain ranges in Africa, the Drakensberg, seen in all its splendour through the magic eye of a camera.

ZAR 200.00
 Front Cover of Halakasha by Fiona Rankin-Smith
Halakasha - Fiona Rankin-Smith

Halakasha by Fiona Rankin-Smith celebrates South Africa FIFA World Cup on African soil. It takes a fresh look at the sports that has made its mark in Africa. Paintings and photographs document the diverse people who have played the game in different environments for almost a century. The collection reflects the influence of football on African material culture.

ZAR 300.00
Front Cover of Bokaap ... Faces and Facades by Lesley and Stephen Townsend
Bokaap... Faces and Facades - Lesley and Stephen Townsend

Bokaap... Faces and Facades: A record of the passing scene in Cape Town's Malay Quarter with a brief account of its architecture and the Muslim inhabitants by Lesley and Stephen Townsend explores, through photographs and archival material, the architecture, history and peoples of this area.

ZAR 2,250.00