Cover of Double Negative

Book 2013

Double Negative

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Publisher
And Other Stories
Language
English
Published
2013
  • Fiction, general
  • South africa, fiction
  • Social conditions
  • Photographers
  • Photography
  • Fiction
  • Apartheid

Dropout Neville Lister accompanies acclaimed photographer Saul Auerbach for a day, to learn a lesson for life. They play a game: from a hill above Johannesburg they pick three houses and decide to knock on their doors in search of a story. Auerbach's images of the first two will become classic portraits, but soon the light fades. Lister only reaches the third house decades later, returning to post-apartheid South Africa and a Johannesburg altered almost beyond recognition.