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House of Bondage

House of Bondage

© Courtesy of Magnum Photos on behalf of the Ernest Cole Family Trust

House of Bondage
House of Bondage
ArtistSouth African, 1940–1990
PrinterSouth African, born 1950
CultureSouth African
Titles
  • House of Bondage
Date1960–1966, printed 2020
MediumGelatin silver prints
DimensionsSheet (each): 20 × 15 13/16 in. (50.8 × 40.1 cm)
 Portfolio case: 21 × 16 3/4 × 4 in. (53.3 × 42.5 × 10.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment
Object number2020.396.1-.100
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceMagnum Photos, London; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Exhibition History"Ernest Cole: Photographer," orgnaized by the Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden, toured across south Africa in 2010-2011 and was shown at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, 4/7/2013-7/7/2013 and the Grey Art Gallery, NYU, 9/3/2014-12/6/2014
Published References Ernest Cole, "House of Bondage: A South African Black Man Exposes in His Own Pictures and Words the Bitter Life of His Homeland Today." New York: Random House, 1967. With an introduction by Joseph Lelyveld and a text by Thomas Flaherty. Ernest Cole, "My Country, My Hell!", Ebony, February 1968, pp. 68-72. Holland Cotter, "Capturing Apartheid’s Daily Indignity, What Ernest Cole’s Hidden Camera Revealed." The New York Times, 11 September 2014. Hamish Crooks, "The Power and Impact of Ernest Cole’s Rediscovered Archive" https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/society-arts-culture/ernest-cole-rediscovered-archive-apartheid-black-history/ Carole Naggar, "Ernest Cole, photographer of apartheid." Al Jazeera, 2 September 2014. Dudley Randall, Review of House of Bondage, Negro Digest, February 1968, pp. 94-95 Struan Robertson and Ivor Powel, "Ernest Cole: Photographer." Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2010. David Smith, "Life through a lens: Ernest Cole photographs shed light on apartheid." The Guardian, 25 November 2010. Tymon Smith, "The Mystery of Ernest Cole's Archive" New Frame, 20 February 2020 https://www.newframe.com/part-one-the-mystery-of-ernest-coles-archive/

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