Milnerton Market book, 2009 + optional print
$50.00
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Milnerton Market has been included in the definitive Photo book! Photo-book! Photobook! The South African Photobook 1945 -2025 by Sean O'Toole.
The book is available in two versions: the 'trade' version with a yellow spine and the 'special' edition(30 Copies) with a grey spine and embossing on the rear.
'For the last decade, David Southwood has been observing, participating in, and photographing the Milnerton flea market. In that time, he has seen subtle changes in one of the many ‘grey zones’ of Cape Town, where a growing number of peripheral characters—mainly poor whites and recent migrants into South Africa—seek to earn a living through trade in second-hand goods. Milnerton Market has emerged from Southwood’s intense engagement as a powerful record of a single community on the fringes of a society in flux.
On the one hand, Milnerton Market simply bears witness to the hodgepodge of life. But on the other hand, it explores the implications of the redistribution of resources by a new democratic government in the early 1990s, a process that did very little to alleviate the destitution of many. The geographic and symbolic ‘in-betweenness’ of the site of the market—it is not sea, not city, not industrial, not prime property—and of the vendors themselves, perched on rickety deck chairs, suggests an uncomfortable unity of political rhetoric and acceptable public memory.'
Print:
'26 Spanners' 2023
Edition of 20
Paper Size: 50 x 40 cm
Archival Inkjet on Hahnemuhle cotton rag.
Hardcover
254 x 216 mm
120 pages
Full color
Essays by:
Hylton F. Thompson
Ivan Vladislavic
Michael Godby
Ivor Powell
