{"product_id":"house-of-bondage-first-uk-edition","title":"House of Bondage (First UK Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCOLE, Ernest\u003c\/strong\u003e (photographs); text with Thomas Flaherty; introduction by Joseph Lelyveld. \u003cem\u003eHouse of Bondage: A South African Black Man Exposes in His Own Pictures and Words the Bitter Life of His Homeland Today.\u003c\/em\u003e London: A Ridge Press Book \/ Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1968.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eQuarto. Original publisher's cloth. Spine gilt. Pictorial dust jacket. 187, [5] pp., illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst UK edition\u003c\/strong\u003e (first published in the United States by Ridge Press \/ Random House, 1967; immediately banned in South Africa). Parr \u0026amp; Badger, \u003cem\u003eThe Photobook\u003c\/em\u003e, Vol. II, pp. 106–107.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eErnest Cole was twenty-six years old when he left South Africa in 1966, his negatives smuggled out of the country in secret. What those negatives contained was a systematic and devastating visual record of apartheid as it was lived from the inside: as it was experienced by the Black majority who lived under it. Cole was South Africa's first Black freelance photojournalist, and to carry out his self-imposed assignment he had arranged to have himself officially reclassified as 'coloured' rather than 'Black', gaining a half-degree of additional freedom of movement that allowed him to photograph what other photographers could not reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe result was \u003cem\u003eHouse of Bondage\u003c\/em\u003e: one hundred and eighty-seven pages of images that showed, with the force of irrefutable testimony, the mines and the schools, the hospitals and the pass courts, the compounds and the streets of a society organised entirely around the domination of one group of human beings by another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe book was published in New York in 1967 and banned in South Africa before its pages had time to reach the country they depicted. The British edition, published by Allen Lane the following year, is considerably scarcer than its American counterpart, and the two together mark one of the defining moments in the history of the photobook as a vehicle for political witness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e Some very mild toning to the dust jacket inner edges and to the edges of the volume. Binding well preserved with spine gilt bright. Contents fresh, bright, and free from markings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000331\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ernest Cole","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48779066671347,"sku":"1110002940194","price":300.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_e3e74cd0-a92d-462a-be51-18602327ad23.png?v=1774931975","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/house-of-bondage-first-uk-edition","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}