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Author: David Lurie Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag ISBN: 9783775743273 Category : Cape Town (South Africa) Languages : en Pages : 142
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Since the end of the apartheid era, Cape Town, South Africa?s metropolis par excellence, has become a major tourist destination, offering sunny backdrops for commercials and homes for the moneyed classes. Obscene levels of unemployment and the daily struggle for survival among the impoverished are rarely visible behind this veneer. The South African photographer David Lurie unmasks the "other" Cape Town, in the early morning hours, when the city is still asleep, delicate and vulnerable. His series Morning After Dark deals with the infrastructure of public and private places and its influence on the city's residents--from rich to poor. The second series in the book, Writing the City, considers the city's surfaces: urban landscapes that include billboards, street signs, graffiti and street art. What are they saying? Who are they speaking to? How do they direct society, and to where? Lurie offers a highly pensive study in fascinating and original images.
Author: David Lurie Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag ISBN: 9783775743273 Category : Cape Town (South Africa) Languages : en Pages : 142
Book Description
Since the end of the apartheid era, Cape Town, South Africa?s metropolis par excellence, has become a major tourist destination, offering sunny backdrops for commercials and homes for the moneyed classes. Obscene levels of unemployment and the daily struggle for survival among the impoverished are rarely visible behind this veneer. The South African photographer David Lurie unmasks the "other" Cape Town, in the early morning hours, when the city is still asleep, delicate and vulnerable. His series Morning After Dark deals with the infrastructure of public and private places and its influence on the city's residents--from rich to poor. The second series in the book, Writing the City, considers the city's surfaces: urban landscapes that include billboards, street signs, graffiti and street art. What are they saying? Who are they speaking to? How do they direct society, and to where? Lurie offers a highly pensive study in fascinating and original images.
Author: David Lurie Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd ISBN: 9781919930725 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 136
Book Description
In this astonishing series of portraits, award-winning photographer David Lurie explores a place and community that exist on the very fringes of Cape Town Here, in a mirror image of the beautiful and desirable city, life is lived at the very edge. Of his time spent photographing Manenberg, David Lurie says: I was welcomed, entertained, amused; I was also frightened, bewildered, often disoriented, incredulous. His portraits of a place and a people arrest us with their unsparing honesty and painstaking care."
Author: David Lurie Publisher: ISBN: Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 140
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Images of Table Mountain is a visual description of the inequalities that exists between the different races that reside in Cape Town with Table Mountain as the on characteristic that they all have in common.
Author: Daniel Herwitz Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350182397 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 213
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Visual art has a ubiquitous political cast today. But which politics? Daniel Herwitz seeks clarity on the various things meant by politics, and how we can evaluate their presumptions or aspirations in contemporary art. Drawing on the work of William Kentridge, drenched in violence, race, and power, and the artworld immolations of Banksy, Herwitz's examples range from the NEA 4 and the question of offense-as-dissent, to the community driven work of George Gittoes, the identity politics of contemporary American art and (for contrast with the power of visual media) literature written in dialogue with truth commissions. He is interested in understanding art practices today in the light of two opposing inheritances: the avant-gardes and their politicization of the experimental art object, and 18th-century aesthetics, preaching the autonomy of the art object, which he interprets as the cultural compliment to modern liberalism. His historically-informed approach reveals how crucial this pair of legacies is to reading the tensions in voice and character of art today. Driven by questions about the capacity of the visual medium to speak politically or acquire political agency, this book is for anyone working in aesthetics or the art world concerned with the fate of cultural politics in a world spinning out of control, yet within reach of emancipation.
Author: Andrew Lawler Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0385546866 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 525
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A spellbinding history of the hidden world below the Holy City—a saga of biblical treasures, intrepid explorers, and political upheaval “A sweeping tale of archaeological exploits and their cultural and political consequences told with a historian’s penchant for detail and a journalist’s flair for narration.” —Washington Post In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics dating to biblical times. Digging deep underground, he discovered an ancient grave that, he claimed, belonged to an Old Testament queen. News of his find ricocheted around the world, evoking awe and envy alike, and inspiring others to explore Jerusalem’s storied past. In the century and a half since the Frenchman broke ground, Jerusalem has drawn a global cast of fortune seekers and missionaries, archaeologists and zealots, all of them eager to extract the biblical past from beneath the city’s streets and shrines. Their efforts have had profound effects, not only on our understanding of Jerusalem’s history, but on its hotly disputed present. The quest to retrieve ancient Jewish heritage has sparked bloody riots and thwarted international peace agreements. It has served as a cudgel, a way to stake a claim to the most contested city on the planet. Today, the earth below Jerusalem remains a battleground in the struggle to control the city above. Under Jerusalem takes readers into the tombs, tunnels, and trenches of the Holy City. It brings to life the indelible characters who have investigated this subterranean landscape. With clarity and verve, acclaimed journalist Andrew Lawler reveals how their pursuit has not only defined the conflict over modern Jerusalem, but could provide a map for two peoples and three faiths to peacefully coexist.
Author: Louisa Zahareas Publisher: ISBN: 9781320584289 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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A photo book of my thesis project: We are now living in a time when the most dominant means of communication is the screen. This project explores a speculative scenario where our objects have mutated in reality but look normal on the screen to imagine a future where the virtual representation of things has become more significant than their actual use or experience.
Author: Dan Lurie Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1434385450 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 418
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Now is the time for the Gospel of the Kingdom to be preached! Mark 1:14 "Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God," notice he did not say, "he came preaching the gospel of the church", but the gospel of the kingdom of God. We must transition from Church to Kingdom. There must be a paradigm shift from trying to multiply church membership to advancing the Kingdom. Kingdom living is not the norm! Kingdom living is not for human beings, but for those who embrace the supernatural.
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Author: David Lurie
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