A4 Arts Foundation
SOUTH AFRICA IN FOCUS
Photo book!
Photo-book!
Photobook!
A browsable exhibition of photobooks from the 1940s to now, tracing South Africa’s history through the art of bookmaking.
“This exhibition presents a large and contradictory archive of photobooks of and about South Africa made between 1945 and 2025. The focus is geographic, but not nationalistic. Books published internationally sit alongside books produced locally. The exhibition presents evidence of a cosmopolitan book culture during the politically charged years of high apartheid years (1948–94), when state repression and censorship ensnared even photobooks. It also includes abundant examples of innovation in photography and book design in the democratic years that followed (1994–present).”
– Sean O’Toole, 2025
Installation view (vitrine): Photo book! Photo-book! Photobook! curated by Sean O'Toole, 11 February–21 May 2022. Image © A4 Arts Foundation.
Venue 会場
Hachiku-an (Former Kawasaki Residence)
- Address
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340 Sanjyo-cho Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto
- Access
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Subway Karasuma or Tozai Lines ""Karasuma Oike"" station, 5 min on foot from Exit 6
Subway Karasuma Line ""Shijo"" station or Hankyu ""Karasuma"" station, 8 min on foot from Exit 22 or 24