South Africa. The cordoned heart

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Badsha, Omar
07-0238
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Editor: Omar Badsha
Publisher: The Galery Press
Cape Town, 1986
Original soft cover, 27x27 cm, 188 pages, throughout bw photos


Condition:

Very good.


Content:

Essays by twenty South African Photographers. Edited by Omar Badsha. Introduction and Text by Francis Wilson. Foreword by Bishop Desmond Tutu.

South Africa: The Cordoned Heart contains one hundred and thirty-six photographs that were used to bring home to people the harsh realities of South Africa revealed by the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development.

The photographers must be commended for their close cooperation with academics and others in this venture. Their pictures show all the contradictions of the society; "commuters" asleep on their buses because apartheid has forced people to live four or five hours' bus journey from their place of work. [...]