Available again in hardback, Outland is the culmination of twenty years' work for artist-photographer Roger Ballen. His photographs of whites on the fringes of South African society are disturbing, exciting and impossible to forget.
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Roger Ballen (b.1950) has lived and worked in Johannesburg, South Africa, for 30 years. Born in New York, he worked as a geologist and mining consultant before starting his own photographic career by documenting the small villages of rural South Africa and their isolated inhabitants. His images are both powerful social statements and disturbing psychological explorations. He is also the author of Shadow Chamber and Boarding House, both published by Phaidon.
Peter Weiermair is an art historian and curator. He was formerly Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany, the Rupertinum Museum in Salzburg, Austria and the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bologna, Italy. Peter Weiermair is Director of the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Bologna, Italy.
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Seller: RZABASBOOKs, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Seller Inventory # 012247
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good(+). Ballen, Roger (illustrator). First. Introduction Peter Weiermair. More than 50 full-page black-and-white photographs. Thin square 4to, glossy pictorial boards, d.w.; minor scuffing and toning to dust wrapper. New York: Phaidon, (2001). First edition. A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. Seller Inventory # 325688
Seller: Henry Pordes Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Square 4to. 120pp. First edition, first printing. White card boards in a jacket. Illustrated w/61 duotone images. A small, 1cm closed tear at head of jacket's spine, as well as some minor edgewear. Internally the book is crisp, clean and complete throughout. 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. Seller Inventory # 034937
Seller: Vortex Books, Teddington, MIDDX, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Uninscribed. Moving series of photographs of poor whites in South Africa. Seller Inventory # 7989
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 4to. Phaidon Press, London, UK. 2001. 120 pgs. 61 duotone illustrations. First Edition/First printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The culmination of nearly 20 years of work, Outland marked Ballen's move from documentary photography into the realms of fiction and propelled him into the international spotlight. Disturbing, exciting and impossible to forget, Ballen's images captured people living on the fringes of South African society. His powerful psychological studies influenced a generation of artists and still resonate today. ; Monographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 120 pages. Seller Inventory # 73745
Seller: Rob Warren Books, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. True First edition. As New. Still sealed. in Publishers shrink wrap. Seller Inventory # 003404
Seller: Versandantiquariat buch-im-speicher, Berlin, Germany
Condition: Gut. unnum. ca. 60 Blatt: Bildband. Geringfügig bestoßen, privater Eintrag auf der Vorsatzrückseite. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100 26x26 cm, weißer Org.-Pappb. mit Org.-Umschlag. Seller Inventory # 33480
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover with dustjacket, unpaginated; very good condition; clean and crisp; except tiny crimp to upper right corner tip of cover, dj and first few pages; signed by Roger Ballen in black marker on title page; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra. Seller Inventory # RoBaPh150
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine condition. First edition. Square quarto. Unpaginated. (120)pp. Original white glossy boards with gray lettering on cover and spine, in original dustjacket with the same lettering. Black endpapers. Signed "Roger Ballen" on title page. Illustrated with sixty-one full-page duotone photos of mainly white South Africans on the outskirts of society. "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." (Publisher). Seller Inventory # 54903