Another Country: South Africa: New Portraits - Hardcover

Leist, Reiner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1431409561 ISBN 13: 9781431409563

Publisher: Jacana Media, 2014

Synopsis

Another Country: South Africa’s New Portraits is based on South Africans’ views on the country and personal history; it gives an unvarnished account of what has changed personally and generally in the country through the lens of existing photographs. A follow-up to Reiner Leist’s South Africa: Blue Portraits, which was published in 1993 on the eve of the first democratic elections, Another Country includes black-and-white portraits that are followed by new color portraits of the participants, but also of surviving sons or daughters, a grandson, a new bearer of the office, or the same site. The images are accompanied by edited versions of the conversations, which provide visual and verbal stories of humanity and the South African landscape.

About this title

About the Author:

Reiner Leist is a photographer who has had numerous exhibitions in Germany, Japan, and the United States. He is the author of Eleven Septembers and South Africa: Blue Portraits. He currently teaches at HunterCollege, City University of New York. He lives in New York City.

Review:

"I think that's the problem we currently facing in South Af- rica, positive leadership, mentorship, that's what's missing throughout the world, throughout the continent especial- ly. That's what I am passionate about and I know what it means to be an African. We are free today, but we are not equal today. What responsibility comes with that freedom that we have earned, that our parents and grandparents have fought for? Yes, you can go to any restaurant you want to, you can buy any car you want to buy if you can afford it, you can move freely, but what about the rest of the population, are they moving freely? Do they have a health care? No, they don't. Our parents have achieved a lot, but there is still a lot more to be achieved. There is still a lot that we have to celebrate." - Ndaba Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela, Investec, Cape Town, April 2010; "Countries with a conflicted history bind you to them much more closely than countries where we could say the more recent past is quite placid. That seems true to me in countries like Israel or Iran and I think that is true of South Africa, too. If you have even half a conscience and half a mind you tend to feel implicated in recent history. I would find it extremely difficult to leave." - Damon Galgut, writer, at home, Cape Town, 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jacana Media
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1431409561
• ISBN 13: 9781431409563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256