This Must Be The Place
by Pieter Hugo
Photographs: Pieter Hugo
Text: TJ Demos, Aaron Schuman
Publisher: Prestel Verlag
227 pages
Pictures: 110 colour illustrations
Year: 2012
ISBN: 978-3-7913-46-89-2
Comments: 26 x 28.5 cm
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.
More books by Pieter Hugo
more books tagged »South African« | >> see all
-
The Borderlands
by Jo Ractliffe
sold out -
Traces and Tracks - a thrity-year journey with the San (signed)
by Paul Weinberg
Euro 25 -
Avenue Patrice Lumumba
by Guy Tillim
Euro 55 -
On the Mines
by David Goldblatt
Euro 65 -
Particulars
by David Goldblatt
sold out -
Moving Spirit
by Paul Weinberg
Euro 60
more books tagged »Africa« | >> see all
-
Nothing's in Vain
by Emmanuelle Andrianjafy
Euro 27.50 -
Petros Village
by Guy Tillim
Euro 132 -
African Canvas
by Margaret Courtney-Clarke
Euro 85 -
The Afronauts
by Cristina de Middel
sold out -
THIS IS WHAT HATRED DID (review copy)
by Cristina de Middel
sold out -
THIS IS WHAT HATRED DID
by Cristina de Middel
Euro 66
more books tagged »portrait« | >> see all
-
One Picture Book 76: Portraits ii (signed + print)
by Leon Borensztein
Euro 89 -
Window of my Eye (signed)
by Annet van der Voort
Euro 35 -
The Faces of the Invisible City
by Ivan Blazhev
sold out -
Portraits
by Rineke Dijkstra
sold out -
faces and places
by Anzenberger Photographers
Euro 15 -
The Gender Frontier
by Mariette Pathy Allen
Euro 32
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
This Must Be The Place
by Pieter Hugo
Photographs: Pieter Hugo
Text: TJ Demos, Aaron Schuman
Publisher: Prestel Verlag
227 pages
Pictures: 110 colour illustrations
Year: 2012
ISBN: 978-3-7913-46-89-2
Comments: 26 x 28.5 cm
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.
More books by Pieter Hugo
more books tagged »South African« | >> see all
-
The Borderlands
by Jo Ractliffe
sold out -
Traces and Tracks - a thrity-year journey with the San (signed)
by Paul Weinberg
Euro 25 -
Avenue Patrice Lumumba
by Guy Tillim
Euro 55 -
On the Mines
by David Goldblatt
Euro 65 -
Particulars
by David Goldblatt
sold out -
Moving Spirit
by Paul Weinberg
Euro 60
more books tagged »Africa« | >> see all
-
Nothing's in Vain
by Emmanuelle Andrianjafy
Euro 27.50 -
Petros Village
by Guy Tillim
Euro 132 -
African Canvas
by Margaret Courtney-Clarke
Euro 85 -
The Afronauts
by Cristina de Middel
sold out -
THIS IS WHAT HATRED DID (review copy)
by Cristina de Middel
sold out -
THIS IS WHAT HATRED DID
by Cristina de Middel
Euro 66
more books tagged »portrait« | >> see all
-
One Picture Book 76: Portraits ii (signed + print)
by Leon Borensztein
Euro 89 -
Window of my Eye (signed)
by Annet van der Voort
Euro 35 -
The Faces of the Invisible City
by Ivan Blazhev
sold out -
Portraits
by Rineke Dijkstra
sold out -
faces and places
by Anzenberger Photographers
Euro 15 -
The Gender Frontier
by Mariette Pathy Allen
Euro 32
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
This Must Be The Place
by Pieter Hugo
Photographs: Pieter Hugo
Text: TJ Demos, Aaron Schuman
Publisher: Prestel Verlag
227 pages
Pictures: 110 colour illustrations
Year: 2012
ISBN: 978-3-7913-46-89-2
Comments: 26 x 28.5 cm
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.
More books by Pieter Hugo
more books tagged »South African« | >> see all
-
The Borderlands
by Jo Ractliffe
sold out -
Traces and Tracks - a thrity-year journey with the San (signed)
by Paul Weinberg
Euro 25 -
Avenue Patrice Lumumba
by Guy Tillim
Euro 55 -
On the Mines
by David Goldblatt
Euro 65 -
Particulars
by David Goldblatt
sold out -
Moving Spirit
by Paul Weinberg
Euro 60
more books tagged »Africa« | >> see all
-
Nothing's in Vain
by Emmanuelle Andrianjafy
Euro 27.50 -
Petros Village
by Guy Tillim
Euro 132 -
African Canvas
by Margaret Courtney-Clarke
Euro 85 -
The Afronauts
by Cristina de Middel
sold out -
THIS IS WHAT HATRED DID (review copy)
by Cristina de Middel
sold out -
THIS IS WHAT HATRED DID
by Cristina de Middel
Euro 66
more books tagged »portrait« | >> see all
-
One Picture Book 76: Portraits ii (signed + print)
by Leon Borensztein
Euro 89 -
Window of my Eye (signed)
by Annet van der Voort
Euro 35 -
The Faces of the Invisible City
by Ivan Blazhev
sold out -
Portraits
by Rineke Dijkstra
sold out -
faces and places
by Anzenberger Photographers
Euro 15 -
The Gender Frontier
by Mariette Pathy Allen
Euro 32
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com