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Description for Dear Edward
Paperback. Family Footprints. 200 pages. This book is a personal journey into the family archives of photographer Paul Weinberg. As a child his sorties into an old black trunk that the family had at home where he encountered stamps, letters, photographs and most importantly postcards, excited his imagination to a world far beyond the borders of South Africa and the African continent. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: WQY. Dimension: 227 x 228 x 20. Weight: 946.
A personal journey into the family archives of a talented photographer, this book explores Paul Weinberg's past as he retraces his family's footprints to far-flung small towns in the interior of South Africa—where his ancestors found a niche in the hotel trade. Part visual narrative and part multilayered travel book, this record is organized in the form of postcards to Weinberg's great grandfather, Edward. Weaving history, historiography, and memoir into a personal pilgrimage, it sets up a dialogue between the past and present and questions who records history and who is left out of it. The family's hotels are also revisited within these ... Read more
A personal journey into the family archives of a talented photographer, this book explores Paul Weinberg's past as he retraces his family's footprints to far-flung small towns in the interior of South Africa—where his ancestors found a niche in the hotel trade. Part visual narrative and part multilayered travel book, this record is organized in the form of postcards to Weinberg's great grandfather, Edward. Weaving history, historiography, and memoir into a personal pilgrimage, it sets up a dialogue between the past and present and questions who records history and who is left out of it. The family's hotels are also revisited within these ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Publisher
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Place of Publication
Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN
9781431405541
SKU
V9781431405541
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About Weinberg
Paul Weinberg is a South African photographer and a founding member of Afrapix, a photographic agency, and South Photographs, a family of South African documentary photographers. His photography has been included in numerous books and he has collaborated on documentaries, earning him the Mother Jones International Documentary Award. He has also worked as a curator and produced several exhibitions.
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