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Platteland : images from rural South Africa

by Roger Ballen

This collection of stark duotone portrait photographs documents the lives of South Africa's impoverished white inhabitants in rural plattelands, depicting a world of social and economic isolation, poverty, and illness.

Accession 7254 ISBN 0312141874 Publisher St. Martin's Press
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