With Mixed Feelings
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.
Published in Cape Town in 1976, With Mixed Feelings is a striking photographic essay that captures the complex, contradictory emotions of life in apartheid-era South Africa — a society fractured by race, identity, and uneasy coexistence. John Rubython's lens documents the human landscape of South Africa with unflinching honesty, while Elaine Durbach's accompanying text gives voice to the silent tensions and quiet dignities that the photographs so powerfully evoke. Together, the two collaborators present a portrait of a nation at once vibrant and deeply troubled, where the personal and the political are inseparable. The work stands as a significant document of its time, offering both historical testimony and artistic vision. Durbach's prose, precise yet emotionally resonant, amplifies what Rubython's images suggest but cannot fully say — leaving the reader to sit with the discomfort, beauty, and ambiguity that the title so aptly promises.
Author: John Rubython & Elaine Durbach
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Don Nelson
Genre: Photography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.
Published in Cape Town in 1976, With Mixed Feelings is a striking photographic essay that captures the complex, contradictory emotions of life in apartheid-era South Africa — a society fractured by race, identity, and uneasy coexistence. John Rubython's lens documents the human landscape of South Africa with unflinching honesty, while Elaine Durbach's accompanying text gives voice to the silent tensions and quiet dignities that the photographs so powerfully evoke. Together, the two collaborators present a portrait of a nation at once vibrant and deeply troubled, where the personal and the political are inseparable. The work stands as a significant document of its time, offering both historical testimony and artistic vision. Durbach's prose, precise yet emotionally resonant, amplifies what Rubython's images suggest but cannot fully say — leaving the reader to sit with the discomfort, beauty, and ambiguity that the title so aptly promises.