Photographer
Ernest Cole
Steidl/ Hasselblad Foundation
Hardcover with Dust jacket
264 Pages
270 x 245 mm
2010
ISBN 9783869301372
About the Artist
Ernest Cole was born near Pretoria in 1940. Leaving school at 17 to become a photographer, he secured staff jobs and freelance assignments for newspapers and magazines for blacks—honing his skills with a correspondence course from the New York Institute of Photography. Inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson’s book The People of Moscow, in 1960 Cole embarked on a project to document the lives of his people which resulted in House of Bondage.
About the Publisher
Steidl celebrates some of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature, publishes German literature as well as translations from French, English and Icelandic. In 1996, Steidl started his own photo book program. Today, some of the most renowned photographers and artists across the globe are part of the Steidl program, including Joel Sternfeld, Bruce Davidson, Karl Lagerfeld, Lewis Baltz, Ed Ruscha, Roni Horn, Paolo Roversi and Juergen Teller, to name but a few.
The Hasselblad Foundation was founded by Erna and Victor Hasselblad’s in 1979. The Foundation aims to promote research and academic teaching in the natural sciences and photography. This is achieved by awarding stipends in the natural sciences and photography, the Hasselblad Award, photographic research and photography exhibitions. Since 1999, there is also a research library, currently the only photography book library in Sweden.
