242pp., b/w & colour illus., hardback, Blackman Rossouw, Cape Town, 2025
ISBN: 9781037052798
Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, 2025.
The retrospective covers Paul Weinberg's photographic career from the 1970s to today.
Contributions include:
"The accidental photographer" by Paul Weinberg
"Thinking 'between the cracks'" by Tamar Garb
"The intimacies of history" by Jacob Dlamini.
Photographer Paul Weinberg was a founder member of Afrapix and South, the collective photo agencies that documented apartheid and popular resistance to it. He has taught photography at the Centre of Documentary Studies at Duke University, and lectured in Documentary Arts and Visual Anthropology at UCT. He is currently a research associate at the South African Research Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture at the University of Johannesburg. Together with David Goldblatt he founded the Ernest Cole Award for creative photography in South Africa, and is currently curator of the Photography Legacy Project His photographic books include Earth Songs, Traces and Tracks, Then and Now, Moving Spirit and Travelling Light.