For more than 30 years now, American photographer Roger Ballen
(born 1950) has been shooting portraits of the impoverished white
population of rural South Africa. Likened to the work of master
documentarians Walker Evans and Diane Arbus, Ballen's controversial
photographs can be brutal, funny, tender and appalling. His day
laborers and transients eek out a seemingly wretched existence in
the country's so-called Platteland--a hermetically sealed world
rarely captured on film. Ballen shoots exclusively in black and
white, and portrays his subjects against the backdrop of their own
living spaces, whose spartan interiors he transforms into
claustrophobic, almost surrealistic stage sets, creating sculptural
tableaux with wire, dilapidated furniture, animals and drawings.
Published on the occasion of a retrospective at the M xFC;nchner
Stadtmuseum, this monograph explores Ballen's extraordinarily
expressive brand of photographic mythmaking.
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