Pieter Hugo: This Must Be The Place: Selected Works - Hardcover

Pieter Hugo; T J Demos; Aaron Schuman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 379134689X ISBN 13: 9783791346892

Publisher: Prestel, 2012

Synopsis

This Must Be the Place presents nearly ten years of work by award-winning South African photographer Pieter Hugo. This book includes a selection of over 100 seminal images from before and after The Hyena & Other Men, the series that catapulted him into the spotlight in 2007. Perceptive essays by TJ Demos and Aaron Schuman situate Hugo s extraordinary career within the realm of contemporary photography and the larger historical context of his native continent, Africa. As Schuman writes, Hugo's images offer an arresting argument for the untrustworthiness of photography, and at the same time reveal the striking vitality that remains at the heart of the medium when a practitioner bravely dares to pose difficult questions.

About this title

About the Author

TJ Demos writes widely on modern and contemporary art. He is a Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, University College, London. Aaron Schuman is an American photographer, writer, editor and curator based in the United Kingdom. Wim Van Sinderen is Senior Curator at The Hague Museum of Photography, Netherlands.

From the Back Cover

Filled with startling portraits of Africa's raw and tragic beauty, this first retrospective of Peter Hugo's award-winning work collects the most important images from the photographer's career to date.
Pieter Hugo has been documenting his native continent of Africa since his late teens. An autodidact, he was eventually drawn to portraiture, an interest that culminated with his hugelypopular book, The Hyena and Other Men. Since that book, Hugo has continued to earn high praise while testing the limits of the traditional portrait. As Aperture magazine observes, "Hugo maneuvers through the muddy waters of political engagement, documentary responsibility, and the relationship of these to his own aesthetic." In the books Nollywood and Permanent Error he suffuses a journalist's perspective and a voyeur's theatricality into images of Africa's people and environment. This retrospective volume collects photographs from each of his earlier series as well as portraits and landscapes that have never been shown or published before. Essays by three esteemed photographic critics contextualize Hugo's career within the realm of contemporary photography. Full-page color illustrations highlight Hugo's extraordinary talent for teasing out the subtleties in otherwise stark images.

From the Inside Flap

Filled with startling portraits of Africa's raw and tragic beauty, this first retrospective of Pieter Hugo's award-winning work collects the most important images from the photographer's career to date. This retrospective volume collects photographs from each of his earlier series as well as portraits and landscapes that have never been shown or published before. Essays by three esteemed photographic critics contextualize Hugo's career Hugo's career within the realm of contemporary photography.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prestel
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 379134689X
• ISBN 13: 9783791346892
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224