Double Negative
Publisher: And Other Stories
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781908276261
Subjects: Fiction, general; South africa, fiction
Description: 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.