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"contents": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First published by Random House in 1967, Ernest Cole’s </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House of Bondage</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> became one of the most significant and impactful photo books of the 20th century, revealing the horrors of apartheid to the world and influencing generations of photographers around the globe. The latest edition, published by Aperture, recontextualises this pivotal book for our time.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ernest Cole was born in what was then known as the Transvaal in South Africa in 1940.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When he fled South Africa in 1966, at the age of 26, he smuggled out his negatives; </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House of Bondage</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was published the following year with his writings and first-person account. The book was promptly banned in South Africa, and Cole was exiled, settling in the US.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1494334\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Ernest-Cole-Bondage-Photo-Essay-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"1088\" /> Untitled ca. 1960s. (Photo: House of Bondage, Aperture, 2022, © Ernest Cole Family Trust)</p>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1494329\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Ernest-Cole-Bondage-Photo-Essay-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"493\" /> Untitled ca 1960s. (Photo: House of Bondage, Aperture, 2022, © Ernest Cole Family Trust)</p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2017, more than 60,000 of Cole’s negatives – missing for more than 40 years – resurfaced in Sweden.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cole was associated with Magnum Photos and received funding from the Ford Foundation to undertake a project that looked at black communities and cultures in the US. He spent an extensive time in Sweden and became involved with the Tiofoto collective. He died in New York of cancer in 1990 at the age of 49.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1494330\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Ernest-Cole-Bondage-Photo-Essay-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" /> Untitled. South Africa, ca. 1960s. (Photo: House of Bondage, Aperture, 2022, © Ernest Cole Family Trust)</p>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1494331\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Ernest-Cole-Bondage-Photo-Essay-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"1076\" /> Earnest boy squats on haunches and strains to follow lessons in heat of packed classroom. South Africa, ca. 1960s. 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It also features an added chapter of never-before-seen photographs of black creative expression and cultural activity that took place under apartheid. Cole had selected images for this section and titled it </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Ingenuity</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, though it was not published in the original edition.</span>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1494326\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1494326\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Ernest-Cole-Bondage-Photo-Essay-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"486\" /> During a group medical examination, the nude men are herded through a string of doctors' offices. South Africa, ca. 1960s. (Photo: House of Bondage, Aperture, 2022, © Ernest Cole Family Trust)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1494332\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1494332\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Ernest-Cole-Bondage-Photo-Essay-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"492\" /> Students kneel on the floor to write. South Africa, ca. 1960s. (Photo: House of Bondage, Aperture, 2022, © Ernest Cole Family Trust)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1494328\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1494328\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Ernest-Cole-Bondage-Photo-Essay-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"476\" /> Typical location has acres of identical four-room houses on nameless streets. Many are hours by train from city jobs. South Africa, ca. 1960s. (Photo: House of Bondage, Aperture, 2022, © Ernest Cole Family Trust)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1494333\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1494333\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Ernest-Cole-Bondage-Photo-Essay-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"478\" /> Untitled, South Africa, ca. 1960s. (Photo: House of Bondage, Aperture, 2022, © Ernest Cole Family Trust)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1494327\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1494327\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Ernest-Cole-Bondage-Photo-Essay-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"1054\" /> Handcuffed blacks were arrested for being in a white area illegally. South Africa, ca. 19602. (Photo: House of Bondage, Aperture, 2022, © Ernest Cole Family Trust)[/caption]\r\n\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read in </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Maverick</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: “</span></i><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-11-30-photographer-ernest-cole-of-bondage-and-freedom-discovery-of-trove-of-negatives-a-game-changer/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer</span></i></a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”</span></i>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Available again more than 50 years later and for the first time in South Africa, </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House of Bondage</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> remains a visually powerful and politically incisive document. 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Untitled ca. 1960s. (Photo: House of Bondage, Aperture, 2022, © Ernest Cole Family Trust)
Untitled ca 1960s. (Photo: House of Bondage, Aperture, 2022, © Ernest Cole Family Trust)
Untitled. South Africa, ca. 1960s. (Photo: House of Bondage, Aperture, 2022, © Ernest Cole Family Trust)
Earnest boy squats on haunches and strains to follow lessons in heat of packed classroom. South Africa, ca. 1960s. (Photo: House of Bondage, Aperture, 2022, © Ernest Cole Family Trust)
During a group medical examination, the nude men are herded through a string of doctors' offices. South Africa, ca. 1960s. (Photo: House of Bondage, Aperture, 2022, © Ernest Cole Family Trust)
Students kneel on the floor to write. South Africa, ca. 1960s. (Photo: House of Bondage, Aperture, 2022, © Ernest Cole Family Trust)
Typical location has acres of identical four-room houses on nameless streets. Many are hours by train from city jobs. South Africa, ca. 1960s. (Photo: House of Bondage, Aperture, 2022, © Ernest Cole Family Trust)
Untitled, South Africa, ca. 1960s. (Photo: House of Bondage, Aperture, 2022, © Ernest Cole Family Trust)
Handcuffed blacks were arrested for being in a white area illegally. South Africa, ca. 19602. (Photo: House of Bondage, Aperture, 2022, © Ernest Cole Family Trust)