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Double Negative
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Dropout Neville Lister accompanies acclaimed photographer Saul Auerbach for a day, to learn a lesson for life. They play a game: from a hill above Johannesburg they pick three houses and decide to knock on their doors in search of a story. Auerbach's images of the first two will become classic portraits, but soon the light fades. Lister only reaches the third house decades later, returning to post-apartheid South Africa and a Johannesburg altered almost beyond recognition. How to live when estranged from your birthplace? What do you lose when you are no longer lost? Double Negative is a subtle triptych that captures the ordinary life of Neville Lister during South Africa's extraordinary revolution. Ivan Vladislavic lays moments side by side like photographs on a table. He lucidly portrays a city and its many lives through reflections on memory, art and what we should really be looking for.
- Subjects :
- Photographers--Fiction
Photography--Fiction
Apartheid--Fiction
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBNs :
- 9781908276261 and 9781908276278
- Database :
- eBook Index
- Journal :
- Double Negative
- Publication Type :
- eBook
- Accession number :
- 690527