Fotografien 1969—2009 (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Photographs: Roger Ballen
Text: Ulrich Pohlmann, Angela Stercken
Publisher: Kerber Verlag
148 pages
Pictures: 268 (b/w)
Year: 2010
ISBN: 978-3-86678-427-7
Comments: Hardcover, language: dt, 30 x 30 cm
For more than 30 years now, the photographer Roger Ballen has been shooting portraits of the impoverished white population of rural South Africa, of day labourers, security guards and workers who eek out a wretched existence in the so-called Platteland. Ballen portrays his subjects against the theatrical backdrop of their own humble homes, whose Spartan interiors he transforms into claustrophobic stage sets on which the actors play their parts with extraordinary expressiveness.
The selected props include wire and dilapidated furniture, which shot in conjunction with the subjects themselves develop a surrealistic life of their own. There is something almost absurdly grotesque about these documentary-style compositions and at the same time something worryingly oppressive. They show a hermetically sealed world that can be read as a deeply troubling image of psychotic energy.
The illustrated book was published on the occasion of the exhibition „Roger Ballen. Photographs 1969–2009“, 12 November 2010 to 27 February 2011, Münchner Stadtmuseum.
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Fotografien 1969—2009 (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Photographs: Roger Ballen
Text: Ulrich Pohlmann, Angela Stercken
Publisher: Kerber Verlag
148 pages
Pictures: 268 (b/w)
Year: 2010
ISBN: 978-3-86678-427-7
Comments: Hardcover, language: dt, 30 x 30 cm
For more than 30 years now, the photographer Roger Ballen has been shooting portraits of the impoverished white population of rural South Africa, of day labourers, security guards and workers who eek out a wretched existence in the so-called Platteland. Ballen portrays his subjects against the theatrical backdrop of their own humble homes, whose Spartan interiors he transforms into claustrophobic stage sets on which the actors play their parts with extraordinary expressiveness.
The selected props include wire and dilapidated furniture, which shot in conjunction with the subjects themselves develop a surrealistic life of their own. There is something almost absurdly grotesque about these documentary-style compositions and at the same time something worryingly oppressive. They show a hermetically sealed world that can be read as a deeply troubling image of psychotic energy.
The illustrated book was published on the occasion of the exhibition „Roger Ballen. Photographs 1969–2009“, 12 November 2010 to 27 February 2011, Münchner Stadtmuseum.
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Fotografien 1969—2009 (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Photographs: Roger Ballen
Text: Ulrich Pohlmann, Angela Stercken
Publisher: Kerber Verlag
148 pages
Pictures: 268 (b/w)
Year: 2010
ISBN: 978-3-86678-427-7
Comments: Hardcover, language: dt, 30 x 30 cm
For more than 30 years now, the photographer Roger Ballen has been shooting portraits of the impoverished white population of rural South Africa, of day labourers, security guards and workers who eek out a wretched existence in the so-called Platteland. Ballen portrays his subjects against the theatrical backdrop of their own humble homes, whose Spartan interiors he transforms into claustrophobic stage sets on which the actors play their parts with extraordinary expressiveness.
The selected props include wire and dilapidated furniture, which shot in conjunction with the subjects themselves develop a surrealistic life of their own. There is something almost absurdly grotesque about these documentary-style compositions and at the same time something worryingly oppressive. They show a hermetically sealed world that can be read as a deeply troubling image of psychotic energy.
The illustrated book was published on the occasion of the exhibition „Roger Ballen. Photographs 1969–2009“, 12 November 2010 to 27 February 2011, Münchner Stadtmuseum.
> See also Roger Ballen's fine art prints
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One Picture Book 85 : The Audience (signed + print)
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Shadow Chamber (signed)
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by Roger Ballen
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Elemental (signed)
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Resurrected (signed)
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The Theatre of Apparitions (signed)
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Roger Ballen(signed)
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No Joke
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by Roger Ballen
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Roger the Rat (signed - last copy)
by Roger Ballen
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Outland (signed)
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drawing meets photography (signed)
by Roger Ballen
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drawing meets photography (book + print)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 330
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Gathered Leaves (signed - last copies)
by Alec Soth
sold out -
Broken Dream
by Antonin Kratochvil
sold out -
Portraits (signed)
by Bruce Davidson
sold out -
Tina Barney - Fotografien: Von Familie, Sitte und Form
by Tina Barney
sold out -
Wild Pigeon (signed)
by Carolyn Drake
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Invisible City
by Ken Schles
Euro 65
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Südafrikanische Fotografien 1952-2006
by David Goldblatt
Euro 195 -
David Goldblatt Photographs
by David Goldblatt
Euro 150 -
Living Apart
by Ian Berry
Euro 85
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Photographs
by Salvatore Sante
Euro 45 -
Real Fake Art
by Michael Wolf
sold out -
Lupimaris (book + print - last copy)
by Christian Stemper
Euro 120 -
Les Filles De Tourgueniev (limited edition + signed print)
by Philippe Herbet
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she dances on Jackson
by Vanessa Winship
sold out -
Portrait Photographs (English)
by Bernhard Fuchs
sold out
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Golden days before they end (first German edition - signed)
by Klaus Pichler
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El Salvador
by Larry Towell
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Dreaming Leone (signed + numbered)
by Alvaro Deprit
Euro 33 -
The Canadians
by Roger Hargreaves, Jill Offenbeck and Stefanie Petrilliv
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Misao The Big Mama And Fukumaru The Cat
by Miyoko Ihara
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Early Work (signed last copy)
by Rene Groebli
Euro 125
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by Thomas Sauvin
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Mi Ojo (last copy)
by Graciela Iturbide
Euro 44 -
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by Erdem Varol
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The Battle of Lewisham 1977
by Homer Sykes
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by David Levenson
Euro 25 -
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by Joan Fontcuberta
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