Ernest Cole (1940-1990)

More photographs from the South African Photographer's posthumously published book The True America (2024) - New York City photos taken in the late 60s + early 70s but only discovered in a Swedish bank vault in 2018

In 2024 an excellent documentary directed by Raoul Peck was also released - Ernest Cole: Lost & Found

#ernestcole #thetrueamerica #photographer #photography #newyork #nyc #ernestcolelostandfound #Raoulpeck #harlem #streetphotography

Ernest Cole (1940-1990)

More photographs from the South African Photographer's posthumously published book The True America (2024) - New York City photos taken in the late 60s + early 70s but only discovered in a Swedish bank vault in 2018

In 2024 an excellent documentary directed by Raoul Peck was also released - Ernest Cole: Lost & Found

#ernestcole #thetrueamerica #photographer #photography #newyork #nyc #ernestcolelostandfound #Raoulpeck #harlem #streetphotography

Ernest Cole (1940-1990)

More photographs from the South African Photographer's posthumously published book The True America (2024) - New York City photos taken in the late 60s + early 70s but only discovered in a Swedish bank vault in 2018

In 2024 an excellent documentary directed by Raoul Peck was also released - Ernest Cole: Lost & Found

#ernestcole #thetrueamerica #photographer #photography #newyork #nyc #ernestcolelostandfound #Raoulpeck #harlem #streetphotography

The True America

South African Photographer Ernest Cole (1940-1990) published one book during his lifetime - House Of Bondage (1967) - a collection exposing life under Apartheid. After fleeing South Africa in 1966, he became a "banned person" and settled in New York, but his final years were marked by periods of homelessness and poverty

In 2018 a collection of 60,000 negatives was found at a bank vault in Stockholm, where Cole had lived briefly. Subsequently the book The True America was published in 2024 and an excellent documentary directed by Raoul Peck was also released - Ernest Cole: Lost & Found

#ernestcole #thetrueamerica #photographer #photography #newyork #nyc #ernestcolelostandfound #Raoulpeck #harlem #streetphotography

The True America

South African Photographer Ernest Cole (1940-1990) published one book during his lifetime - House Of Bondage (1967) - a collection exposing life under Apartheid. After fleeing South Africa in 1966, he became a "banned person" and settled in New York, but his final years were marked by periods of homelessness and poverty.

In 2018 a collection of 60,000 negatives was found at a bank vault in Stockholm, where Cole had lived briefly. Subsequently the book The True America was published in 2024 and an excellent documentary directed by Raoul Peck was also released - Ernest Cole: Lost & Found

#ernestcole #thetrueamerica #photographer #photography #newyork #nyc #ernestcolelostandfound #Raoulpeck #harlem #streetphotography

It's only by coincedence that days after the US government welcomed a group of White South Africans (giving them refugee status saying they face discrimination and violence at home) that I watched this fascinating #documentary on the work of #photographer #ErnestCole. In the 1960s Cole smuggled his prints of Apartheid images out of his homeland to New York where they were published in a book - #HouseofBondage (1969). It was the only book published during his lifetime. There was no interest in his equally provocative photos of Negro Life in America.

The documentary Ernest Cole: Lost & Found is streaming on Hulu. I hightly recommend it.

#ernestcolelostandfound #raoulpeck #film #filmworld #photography #lostimages #apartheid #southafrica

📷 Ernest Cole, photographe – Un documentaire de Raoul Peck

À 27 ans, Ernest Cole publie House of Bondage, le premier livre de photographies à exposer les rouages de l’apartheid sud-africain.
Il devient persona non grata dans son propre pays. Il s’exile. Il disparaît presque.

En 2017, 60 000 négatifs oubliés sont retrouvés dans un coffre-fort en Suède.
Des images puissantes, longtemps censurées, que le monde n’avait jamais vues.

🎞️ À voir ici : https://www.cinemutins.com/ernest-cole-photographe

#ErnestCole

🎥 Mercredi 14/05 20h30 Ernest Cole, photographe (documentaire)

https://mobilizon.fr/events/3032c895-4c6e-4a85-8cae-b4654aeeb55f