{"product_id":"2026200012337-secondhand-with-mixed-feelings","title":"With Mixed Feelings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished 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.\n\nTogether, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130808836315,"sku":"2026200012337-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ced46fd9-1a8f-4868-9b9b-9a12b4083d20.png?v=1786590346","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012337-secondhand-with-mixed-feelings","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}