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The first book to visually expose and protest apartheid — “itself a fugitive object,” the curator Oluremi C. Onabanjo writes — “House of Bondage” also witnesses a people’s determination to...
First published in 1967, Ernest Cole’s "House of Bondage" has been lauded as one of the most significant photobooks of the twentieth century, revealing the horrors of apartheid to the world...
Ernest Cole (born in Transvaal, South Africa, 1940; died in New York, 1990) is best known for House of Bondage, a photobook published in 1967 that chronicles the horrors of apartheid. After fleeing South Africa in 1966, he became a “banned person,” settling in New York.
May 5, 2023–Apr 7, 2024. “Three hundred years of white supremacy in South Africa have placed us in bondage, stripped us of dignity, robbed us of self-esteem, and surrounded us with hate,” wrote Ernest Cole in the introduction to his photobook House of Bondage.
Life in apartheid, in surveillance-obsessed appalling conditions. he sneaked into prisons by getting himself arrested, working in mines, hiding his camera under sandwiches in a paper lunch bag and shooting through a tear in the bag, Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more.
“House of Bondage”—which fell out of print in the eighties and is now being republished by Aperture—provided audiences outside of South Africa with their first visceral view of apartheid. In...
First published in 1967, Ernest Cole’s House of Bondage has been lauded as one of the most significant photobooks of the twentieth century, revealing the horrors of apartheid to the world for the first time and influencing generations of photographers around the globe.
