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Outland Hardcover – March 26, 2001

by Roger Ballen (Author)
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Outland is the culmination of almost twenty years work for artist-photographer Roger Ballen and amounts to one of the most extraordinary photographic documents of the late twentieth century. Beginning by documenting the small 'dorps' or villages of rural South Africa, Ballen's photography moved on in the late 1980s and early 1990s to their inhabitants: isolated rural whites scarred by history, in the process of losing the privileges of apartheid which had provided them livelihoods and sustained their identity for a generation. The results were shocking, both powerful social statements and disturbing psychological studies.
Through the late 1990s and into 2000, Ballen's work has progressed again. Continuing to portray whites on the fringe of South African society, his subjects begin to act. Where previously his pictures, however troubling, fell firmly into the category of documentary photography, his new work moves into the realms of fiction. Ballen's characters act out dark and discomforting tableaux, providing images which are exciting and disturbing in equal measure. One is forced to wonder whether they are exploited victims, colluding directly in their own ridicule, or newly empowered and active participants within the drama of their representation.
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  1. Print length
    114 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Phaidon Press
  4. Publication date
    March 26, 2001
  5. Grade level
    8 and up
  6. Reading age
    13 years and up
  7. Dimensions
    10 x 0.75 x 10 inches
  8. ISBN-10
    0714840580
  9. ISBN-13
    978-0714840581
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You have never seen photographs like these before--black-and-white images of people who seem damaged and defective, yet oddly sympathetic, posed in ways that suggest the pitiless workings of heredity and environment. Using a shallow, stagelike space, Roger Ballen gets in close to his subjects--men, women, and children living in remote parts of South Africa.

A woman in a soiled dress shouts at a man whose back is turned--or at the barking dog rearing over his shoulder. A plump fellow in a security guard's uniform stares, wide-eyed, at the camera while one of his meaty hands pins a tiny puppy against the wall. On a patch of raked dirt, a sleeping baby in underpants lies across the intersection of two mysterious tangled lengths of string.

These photographs pose blacks and whites together in ways that suggest enigmatic playfulness or wordless acceptance. In one image, a white woman, blind in one eye, with a face like a rotten apple, wraps her arms around two pug dogs. Next to her, a black woman in a smock stands patiently. Above them, large portraits of children (where are they now?) hang on the dirty wall. It is a scene of care and neglect, loss and resignation.

Ballen's current work occupies an odd niche between documentary and staged photography. The sitters are real people, seemingly in their own environments, and the photographer dignifies them by using their proper names in the captions. But he poses them with live and inanimate objects--a fish, a hammer, a broken baby carriage--in ways that heighten the tension and ambivalence of their situations. Even electrical wire strung on the wall creates a nervous force field. It's as if Diane Arbus and Robert Frank had joined forces with a master of German expressionist theater. --Cathy Curtis

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Phaidon Press; F First Edition (March 26, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 114 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0714840580
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0714840581
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 8 and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10 x 0.75 x 10 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Neville Trickett
5.0 out of 5 stars Rodger Ballen
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This is an amazing book, Very, very well produced. worth every penny. Highly recommended for any art photography lover. A real treasure.
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Busy Bee
5.0 out of 5 stars Original and beautiful in an unusual way.....
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2001
I just picked this book up today and was amazed at its sensitivity and beauty. Not everyone will enjoy it or understand this book but it has a feeling of Diane Arbus and the easiness of early Mary Ellen Mark with a kick of Ralph Eugene Meatyard. The compositions are beautiful and the inclusion of the animals are perfect.
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Anonim
5.0 out of 5 stars Outland de Ballen
Reviewed in Spain on January 31, 2013
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Merecidamente, Outland fue premiado como Best Photographic book of the Year at PhotoEspaña 2001, Madrid, Spain. Ballen, con su fotografía inquietante, junto a Goldblatt y Pieter Hugo, es uno de los maestros de la foto surafricana.
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