Santu Mofokeng
Subtitle: a silent solitude : photographs 1982-2011
By: edited by Simon Njami
Contributors: Njami, Simon, 1962- editor, organizer; Foro Boario (Modena, Italy)
Edition: First edition.
Series: Skira Photography; Photography (Milan, Italy)
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9788857232164; 9788857231938
Subjects: Exhibitions; Black Photographers; Apartheid; History; Artistic Photography; Pictorial works; Documentary photography
Other titles: Silent solitude : photographs, 1982-2011
Description: "Being a photographer at the time when Santu Mofokeng decided to become one was not an unmotivated act. A psychological, moral, and sometimes physical war was being fought, and South Africa was its arena. Photography could not afford to be an artistic abstraction. It was both a political and intellectual commitment. It was anger; it was revolt. But it remained, in spite of everything, a form of writing, and that is how Mofokeng approached it. Not like his country's freedom fighters who denounced the iniquity of the ideology behind apartheid, but as the very special witness of a story which, until then, had been suppressed. By photographing his people, the places, the faces, and the streets, Mofokeng speaks to us about himself. Because all stories always begin with the person who tells them. And they come back to the teller in the end."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Translations: Felicity Lutz, Jacopo Pes.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Foro Boario, Modena, Italy, March 6-May 8, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English and Italian.

Title of series appears on cover.
Table of contents: title: A silent solitude = Una silenziosa solitudine  -- Simon Njam; title: People --; title: Significant spaces --; title: The family --; title: Spirits -- -- Appendix/Apparati:; title: Biografia --; title: Biography --; title: Exhibitions/Esposizioni.