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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Johannesburg Circa Now is about photography and the city and it started with a conversation. Cities run on conversations and ours gave birth to an ever-widening circle of engagement with others. At the centre of our original discussion were two shared preoccupations. On the one hand an abiding interest in photography’s relation to the real and how photographs mediate our experience of ourselves in the world. On the other the practical experience of having worked on a number of projects connected with photography public space and the inner city of Johannesburg. Jo had spent the past five years documenting Johannesburg’s transforming inner city alongside various teaching and curatorial projects she was involved in. Terry’s art practice had included work in media and social communications for both development agencies and the corporate sector. And although our interests have been located in relatively distinct contexts we recognised that there were interesting links between the two and common ground in the complex and contradictory environment that is the inner city. In particular it was interesting to discover that the work we were currently developing emerged quite directly from the work we had presented on the Joubert Park Public Art Project in 2001. This led to a thought about what could happen in a coming together of our two projects and we began to talk about collaborating on a new project that we believed would find a most appropriate home. (LL)