House of Bondage : a South African Black Man Exposes in His Own Pictures and Words the Bitter Life of His Homeland Today

Ernest Cole
House of Bondage : a South African Black Man Exposes in His Own Pictures and Words the Bitter Life of His Homeland Today

Photographs: Ernest Cole

Text: Thomas Flaherty & Joseph Lelyveld

Publisher: Random House

200 pages

Year: 1967

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 305 x 220 mm. First edition, 1967. Gravure printing. Text in english. Minor wear. Rare traces of foxing. Kept in very good condition overall. Binding is fine and reproductions very well preserved. Rare in this condition.

The House of Bondage is the dwelling-place of the black people of South Africa, whose bitter life is one of the tragedies of our century. Ernest Cole has lived the tragedy as an inmate of the House for most of his twenty-seven years. A remarkably gifted photographer and an eloquent spokesman, he...exiled himself to expose the harsh realities of his homeland. From his unique vantage point, Cole sees every aspect of South Africa's degradation with a searching eye and a passionate heart.