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.