Ending 27th Jul, 2021 20:16
Aspire X PLP | African Photography Auction 2021
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Bob Gosani © BAHA (South Africa 1934-1972)
Township Jazz
non-fugitive pigment print on archival fiber-based Baryta paper
Artwork date: 1956
Signature details: stamped with the BAHA stamp
Edition: number 1 of an edition of 25
Sold for R3,986
Estimated at R3,000 - R4,000
non-fugitive pigment print on archival fiber-based Baryta paper
Artwork date: 1956
Signature details: stamped with the BAHA stamp
Edition: number 1 of an edition of 25
(1)
image size: 40 x 40 cm; sheet size: 50 x 50 cm unframed
South African photographer Bob Gosani (1934 – 1972) started at Drum magazine in 1952 as a messenger, but became one of the magazine’s most outstanding and prolific photographers – documenting the political struggle, human rights abuses, as well as urban lifestyle. His work is featured in Tauza – Bob Gosani’s People, edited by Mothobi Mutloatse and Jacqui Masiza (Struik, 2005), which pays tribute to Gosani’s legacy.
Drum magazine, August 1956: "Shanty Town In City Hall! - Backstage before the show. It all started with the huge, compelling party poster splashed magnetically over Johannesburg. ‘Township Jazz’ at the Selbourne Hall. The poster also carried a controversy, as sensitive as a winter blister. There would be shows for Euros only and shows for Non-Euros only. All this would take place at the Johannesburg City Hall. There the music, song and dance of the townships would be presented by the Union of South African Artists. This Union fights to get better and wider horizons for the Non-White artists. So if this Union claims to champion the cause of us blacks, why the hack should they go in for segregation and separate audiences and black dates and white dates. No man, you don’t see the point. The Union’s got somewhere if they’ve got the City Hall for this."
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Auction: Aspire X PLP | African Photography Auction 2021, ending 27th Jul, 2021
The sale, presented in partnership with the Photography Legacy Project (PLP) was the largest collection of African photography ever to come to auction.
Notable inclusions were works by Zimbabwean photographer Tamary Kudita and young award-winning woman photographer, Lee-Ann Olwage who collaborated with Belinda Qaqamba Kafassie. Emerging photographers like Kongo Astronauts collective (DRC) and the documentary imagery of Etinosa Yvonne (Nigeria) added depth and diversity, while the older generation of established practitioners like David Goldblatt, Alf Kumalo and Ernest Cole also featured.
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