HOUSE OF BONDAGE

230pp., 4to., illus., hardback, New Edition, New York, (1967) 2022

Texts by Oluremi C. Onabanjo, James Sanders and Mongane Wally Serote

Ernest Cole (1940-1990) photographed the brutality of apartheid in the 1950s and 1960s. He left South Africa in 1966, smuggling out his negatives. House of Bondage was published the following year with his writings and first-person account.

This  edition includes:

"On Looking at House of Bondage Now: A lament, an indictment" by Mongane Wally Serote

"Black Spots, Photographic Spectres" by Oluremi C. Onabanjo

"The Spearpoint Pivoted: The rise of Ernest Cole" by James Sanders.