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Wake Up, This Is Joburg (Hardcover)
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Wake Up, This Is Joburg (Hardcover)
Series: Theory in Forms
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A single image taken from a high-rise building in inner-city
Johannesburg uncovers layers of history-from its premise and
promise of gold to its current improvisations. It reveals the city
as carcass and as crucible, where informal agents and processes
spearhead its rapid reshaping and transformation. In Wake Up, This
Is Joburg, writer Tanya Zack and photographer Mark Lewis offer a
stunning portrait of Johannesburg and personal stories of some of
the city's ordinary, odd, and outrageous residents. Their photos
and essays take readers into meat markets where butchers chop cow
heads; the eclectic home of an outsider artist that features
turrets and full of manikins; long-abandoned gold pits beneath the
city, where people continue to mine informally; and lively markets,
taxi depots, and residential high-rises. Sharing people's private
and work lives and the extraordinary spaces of the metropolis, Zack
and Lewis show that Johannesburg's urban transformation occurs not
in a series of dramatic, wide-scale changes but in the everyday
lives, actions, and dreams of individuals.
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