Zack Tanya Zack, Lewis Mark Lewis

Wake Up, This Is Joburg (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A single image taken from a high-rise building in inner-city Johannesburg uncovers layers of history-from its premise and promise of gold to its current improvisations. It reveals the city as carcass and as crucible, where informal agents and processes spearhead its rapid reshaping and transformation. In Wake Up, This Is Joburg, writer Tanya Zack and photographer Mark Lewis offer a stunning portrait of Johannesburg and personal stories of some of the city's ordinary, odd, and outrageous residents. Their photos and essays take readers into meat markets where butchers chop cow heads; the eclectic home of an outsider artist that features turrets and full of manikins; long-abandoned gold pits beneath the city, where people continue to mine informally; and lively markets, taxi depots, and residential high-rises. Sharing people's private and work lives and the extraordinary spaces of the metropolis, Zack and Lewis show that Johannesburg's urban transformation occurs not in a series of dramatic, wide-scale changes but in the everyday lives, actions, and dreams of individuals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478023326
• Artikelnr.: 72419897

Autorenporträt

Words by Tanya Zack, Photographs by Mark Lewis

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. True Places / Achal Prabhala  ix
Acknowledgments  xv
Introduction  1
1. S’kop  27
2. Tony Dreams in Yellow and Blue  53
3. Inside Out  81
4. Zola  115
5. Good Riddance  143
6. Tea at Anstey’s  175
7. Bedroom  211
8. Master Mansions  241
9. Johannesburg. Made in China  271
10. Undercity  305
References  337
Index  339