The KZNSA Gallery is pleased to host the book launch of Cedric Nunn: Call and Response, published by FOURTHWALL Books. The launch will take place on Friday 20th April at 6pm on the occassion of the exhibition opening of ‘Call and Response’.
- 20 April 2012
- Book Launch
Fourthwall Books is pleased to announce the publication of Cedric Nunn: Call and Response
The book launch will take place on 20th April 2012 at 6pm on the occasion of the opening of Cedric Nunn's exhibition Call and Response.
The South African photographer Cedric Nunn began working professionally as a photographer when he was twenty-five. It was 1983 and South Africa was entering one of the darkest periods in its history. Nunn had joined the agency and collective Afrapix, determined to make images about life in South Africa that he was not seeing in the media. Almost thirty years later, Nunn is firmly established as one of South Africa’s most important photographers. His work has ranged widely across the South African physical and political landscape and he has photographed rallies, funerals, and, in the early 1990s, the momentous political events surrounding Nelson Mandela’s release from prison.
Nunn’s most powerful images, however, focus on individuals and lives in places far from the noise of rallies and parades. He has amassed a wealth of images in KwaZulu-Natal—where his own family is from—that capture the minutiae of daily life and serve as one of the most important records of rural South Africa under apartheid. Nunn’s photographs evince a deep compassion for people who struggle for their livelihood in adverse circumstances and his work is at its most eloquent when he is in the homes of tenant farmers, or in country classrooms, or crossing fields with women carrying water and firewood.
Nunn is deeply sensitive to the complexity of life lived in southern Africa. His work in rural areas does not paint a picture of a pastoral idyll but notes the hardships brought on by migrant labour, farm evictions, drought and overgrazing, feudal relationships, and government-fomented factional and tribal rivalries. At the same time, in both his rural and urban images, he notices the small joys of home and community, the nuances of family ties and loyalties, and the extraordinary resilience of ordinary people.
This book is made possible with the support of Seippel Gallery Cologne/Johannesburg; Bailey Seippel Gallery Johannesburg; Museum Goch; and Kunst:Raum Sylt-Quelle
Cedric Nunn: Call and Response
Published in 2011 by Hatje Cantz and Fourthwall Books
ISBN 978-0-9869850-4-1
Hard cover
144 pages
28.7 x 24 cm
80 duotone images
R450.00 (incl. VAT)
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