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Sean O'Toole
Cali and Carly are carpenter ants who are sick of eating the same old food every day. So they decide to attempt to snack on a food source discovered with…
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Between 1979 and 1980 the author recorded everyday scenes in the streets, shops, clubs, churches, homes, gardens and cemetery in Boksburg, a legally white-only town on the eastern periphery of…
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Beginning with the punishment systems of the ancient world, Sean O'Toole investigates the birth of the modern prison, the transportation process, the convict era and finally the creation of Australia’s…
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In this wide-ranging monograph, the achievements of Irma Stern, one of South Africa’s most celebrated painters, are introduced to a contemporary audience.
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As prison populations increase in Australia and worldwide, this book presents a stocktake of what we know about corrections. It encompasses corrections in the community as well as private and…
Sean O'Toole (City University of New York, Baruch College)
A bold reimagining of the literary history of Decadence through a close examination of the transnational contexts of Oscar Wilde’s classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Ashraf Jamal,Jean Wainwright,Sean O'Toole
Most famously shot against a ruined wall in Westbury, Johannesburg, Rhode’s images cling nostalgically-yet-hopelessly to the particularity of a place in the very moment that longing is canceled out. Symptoms…
Gareth Nyandoro,Adelaide Blanc,Sean O'Toole
The first monograph on Harare-based Gareth Nyandoro - a leading Zimbabwean artist of his generation - documenting international exhibitions of his mixed-media drawings and installations.
Courtney-Clarke’s three-volume photographic research into the creative spirit and harsh lives of women in modern-day Africa, with a fourth volume of commentary on the acclaimed series
This collection summarizes Margaret…
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The Journey profiles 17 emerging young photographers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, and Sudan in contemporary African photography.
Mikhael Subotzky,Patrick Waterhouse
Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse worked at Ponte City, the iconic Johannesburg apartment building and Africa’s tallest residential skyscraper, for more than six years. There they photographed its residents and…
