District Six By Adam Small, Jansje Wissema
Limited Edition. 1000 copies of this first printing, numbered 1-1000 and signed by Adam Smal. (This copy Number 839)
District Six By Adam Small, Jansje Wissema
Softcover
ISBN 0908423195
Publisher: Fontein Publishing Company Ltd 1986
Used - Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some slight/limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.
The book celebrates the last days of Cape Town's famous District Six before a 1966 proclamation in terms of the Group Areas Act reserved the area for white ownership and occupation, thus ending the life of one of the liveliest parts of the city.
The Cape Provincial Institute of Architects commissioned the Dutch-born Jansje Wissema, one of South Africa's most celebrated photographers, to make a recornd of the building, street life and people of the area. Her portfolio has become one of South Africa's most poignant historical documents, but because she died soon after completing the commission it has not until now been published. In this book, a selection from her complete portfolio has been complemented by a text specially written for the occasion by one of District Six's greatest interpreters, Adam Small.
From the back cover: "Recognising that District Six was not only a vital community but contained architecture abounding with felicities and of great historical importance, the Cape Provincial Institute of Architects commissioned Dutch-born photographer Jansje Wissema to make a record of the buildings, street life and people of the area. Her portfolio has become one of South Africa's most poignant historical documents, but because she died soon after completing the commission it [had not until then] been published."
Three-colour laminated white card covers; plain black endpapers; 12 pp of grey matt stock with prelims and poetry by Adam Small; 32 pp of heavy art paper with 73 of Wissema's pictures reproduced as sepia duotones.
