Pieter Hugo: This Must Be the Place by TJ Demos - 2012-04-16

Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2012. Hardcover. Els in fine condition. Large Quarto. 227 (1)pp. Original black cloth with blind-stamped lettering on cover and spine in pictorial dustjacket with white lettering on spine. Black endpapers. Black half-title. "This must Be The Place presents nearly ten years of work by award-winning South African photographer Pieter Hugo. This book includes a selection of over 100 seminal images from before and after The Hyena & Other Men, the series that catapulted him into the spotlight in 2007. Perceptive essays by TJ Demos and Aaron Schuman situate Hugo's extraordinary career within the realm of contemporary photography and the larger historical context of his native continent, Africa." (Publisher). Profusely illustrated with full page color photographs, some in b/w. List of exhibitions and publications at rear. Very light wear along edges of dustjacket.

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Munich: Prestel, 2012. First. Hardcover. VG+/VG-. Black cloth boards Very Good condition all around, pages bright, clean, immaculate, minor edgewear to boards, 237 pages. The just-jacket is rubbed at extremities with bit of chipping especially around the spine's base and crown and on the underside of the jacket (the part not visible unless jacket is removed) but here are no missing pieces or tears.

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Prestel 2012. Hardcover, 228 pages, ENG, 290 x 270 x 25 mm, dustjacket, NEW !, Full Page Coloured Photographs, Not just another photobook.... ISBN 9783791346892. Filled with startling portraits of Africa's raw and tragic beauty, this first retrospective of Peter Hugo's award-winning work collects the most important images from the photographer's career to date. Pieter Hugo has been documenting his native continent of Africa since his late teens. An autodidact, he was eventually drawn to portraiture, an interest that culminated with his hugelypopular book, The Hyena and Other Men. Since that book, Hugo has continued to earn high praise while testing the limits of the traditional portrait. As Aperture magazine observes, "Hugo maneuvers through the muddy waters of political engagement, documentary responsibility, and the relationship of these to his own aesthetic." In the books Nollywood and Permanent Error he suffuses a journalist's perspective and a voyeur's theatricality… Read More

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