Anonymous: Enigmatic images from unknown photographers

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Anonymous: Enigmatic images from unknown photographersPublisher's text: Like gold nuggets amongst pebbles, the more than 200 images reproduced in this book include many of transcendent beauty and psychological insight, all with the magical, mysterious charge that comes from using our own imaginations to speculate on the circumstances in which they were taken. Superbly produced with an introduction by internationally bestselling author William Boyd and with texts by the photographic and print historian

The results are often drawings

Basquiat was a downtown talent rising rapidly from the graffiti scene

From the introduction text by Terry Kurgan & Jo Ractliffe:

“In July 2017 the South African Equality Court dismissed charges of Hate Speech against Goldendean's exhibition of a poster using the words "Fuck White People" in the Iziko National Gallery

The wave of violence left more than 60 people dead

an indoor sculpture Dion constructed for 18 live African finches in 1993

"In this remarkable portrait of a city

Since the first Young Artist Award was given in 1981

but also those of almost all their fellow artists

a 'shop display' of babies' and children's clothes with disturbing phrases embroidered on them – 'a quiet reminder of phenomena in our society that turn children into vulnerable victims'

of other post-colonial African nations

with accompanying comments and ideas written by the artist

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