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Ballen (Roger) : DORPS, Small Towns of South Africa

unpaginated (140 page), 2 frontispieces and 64 full page photographic plates, 4to (295 x 245 mm), white simulated cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket which has some light spotting at the bottom lefthand corner of the upper cover and which is now preserved in a protector

Ballen (Roger) : DORPS, Small Towns of South Africa

unpaginated (140 page), 2 frontispieces and 64 full page photographic plates, 4to (295 x 245 mm), white simulated cloth, light dust spotting on the top edge, a very good copy in the dust jacket which has some light spotting on the back panel and which is now preserved in a protector. Signed by the author on the half-title page

'"Dorps, Small Towns of South Africa" is a moving and poetic statement about a vanishing world. An American who has lived in South Africa for several years, Roger Ballen brings to his job the best of two worlds: he is both outsider and insider, he has a view uncluttered by sentiment, sometimes even brutal in its frankness; as an insider, he has a sensitive eye for nuance and mood. Above all, his view is compassionate. In stripping bare whatever and whoever his camera focuses upon, he knows how to expose "what is mortal and unsure". Unflinching, his camera's eye stares at unrelenting reality; at the same it reveals essences of experience and of being in the world. In capturing the most fleeting moments Roger Ballen yet presents in his images a quality of timelessness. And in doing so he persuades the reader to rediscover a world too easily taken for granted, forcing him not just to look at the world, but to see through it.' André Brink.

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