5th Nov, 2020 19:00
Aspire X PLP | African Photography Auction 2020
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Paul Weinberg (South Africa 1956-)
Young boy playing a homemade guitar, N||haru‡|’an, Nyae Nyae, Namibia, 1987 (from Traces and Tracks)
archival ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Artwork date: 1987
Signature details: signed
Edition: number 6 from an edition of 15
Sold for R28,140
Estimated at R18,000 - R24,000
archival ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Artwork date: 1987
Signature details: signed
Edition: number 6 from an edition of 15
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image size: 32 x 47.5 cm, sheet size: 42 x 59.5 cm, unframed
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Paul Weinberg is a photographer, curator, filmmaker, writer, educationist and archivist. He began his career in the early 1980s by working for South African NGOs, and photographing current events for news agencies and foreign newspapers. He was a founder member of Afrapix and South, the collective photo agencies that gained local and international recognition for their uncompromising role in documenting apartheid, and popular resistance to it. From 1990 onwards he increasingly concentrated on feature and in-depth projects. He has been published and exhibited widely over a period of 40 years. In his career he has produced 18 books as a photographer and author and has been published in many other anthologies and group projects. He taught photography at the Centre of Documentary Studies at Duke University in the United States and holds a master’s degree from the same university. Weinberg lectured in Documentary Arts and Visual Anthropology at the University of Cape Town and is currently a research associate at the Centre for South African Art and Visual Culture, University of Johannesburg. Together with David Goldblatt, he founded the Ernest Cole Award for creative photography in southern Africa. He currently works as a curator, archivist and photographer. Weinberg documented the changing lives of the San of southern Africa, Africa’s first people, over a 30-year period which resulted in four books and a number of local and international exhibitions. Traces and Tracks was shown at the Wits Origins Centre, Johannesburg (2017), and published as a monograph by Jacana in the same year. This body of work is held in collections at the World Museum, Rotterdam; Duke University, Durham; !Khwa ttu Education Centre for the San, Cape Town; and Brenthurst Library, Johannesburg. His work on the San has been exhibited at the Market Photo Gallery, Johannesburg (1995); Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (1996); World Museum, Rotterdam (1997); NSA Gallery, Durban (1997); and was included in the fringe Perth Arts Festival (2002), and the Apartheid and After group exhibition, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (2015).
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Auction: Aspire X PLP | African Photography Auction 2020, 5th Nov, 2020
A collection of pan-African works, straddling the terrain between historical and contemporary photography, were auctioned to support the digitisation of African photographic legacies by the Photography Legacy Project (PLP). Bidders participated from across Europe, the USA and UK, Asia, Australia and Africa – a testament to Aspire’s increasing global reach and collectors’ enthusiasm for African photography.
The auction included photographic luminaries such as David Goldblatt, Alf Kumalo, G.R. Naidoo, Ranjith Kally and Ian Berry, as well as more contemporary internationally acclaimed photographers like Guy Tillim, Jo Ractliffe, Syowia Kyambi and Mikhael Subotzky. The lead lot, a portfolio of 12 silver gelatin prints from the legendary photographer Ernest Cole’s seminal 1967 book House of Bondage sold for an astounding R569,000 – a new world auction record.
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