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PUBLISHER
Steidl

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 12 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 68 color / 98 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Forthcoming

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2021 p. 92   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783958298774 TRADE
List Price: $65.00 CAD $91.00

AVAILABILITY
Awaiting stock

TERRITORY
NA ONLY

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

London, England
Somerset House, 2021

Cape Town, South Africa
SMAC Gallery, 2021

Yzerfontein, South Africa
!Khwa ttu San Heritage Museum, 2021

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Margaret Courtney-Clarke: When Tears Don’t Matter

Text by Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Kileni A. Fernando, Rob J. Gordon, Virginia MacKenny.

Margaret Courtney-Clarke: When Tears Don’t Matter

How dispossession and climate change have wreaked destruction on the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert

Following her 2017 book Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain, Margaret Courtney-Clarke (born 1949) now turns her lens to the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert. The inspiration for When Tears Don’t Matter comes, in part, from her grandfather’s photographs of almost a century earlier during his mandate as Secretary for South West Africa (now Namibia), some of which are reproduced here. More than 6,000 miles of formidable terrain takes Courtney-Clarke across bushveld, sand and salt pans to drought-stricken conservancies, farming communities that function as holding tanks for “cultural villages” and peri-urban squatments.

Largely invisible to the outside world, the bushmen today are dispossessed of their land, sidelined by economic inequity and outdated mythologies that present them as living in an “uncontaminated” state. Courtney-Clarke’s photographs lie at the crossroads between documentary and activism.


Featured image is reproduced from ‘Margaret Courtney-Clarke: When Tears Don’t Matter'.

Margaret Courtney-Clarke: When Tears Don’t Matter

STATUS: Forthcoming | 6/24/2025

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ISBN: 9783958298811
USD $95.00
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Pub Date: 6/24/2025
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Margaret Courtney-Clarke: When Tears Don’t Matter

MARGARET COURTNEY-CLARKE: WHEN TEARS DON’T MATTER

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958298774
USD $65.00
| CAD $91

Pub Date: 6/24/2025
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Margaret Courtney-Clarke: Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain

MARGARET COURTNEY-CLARKE: CRY SADNESS INTO THE COMING RAIN

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958292536
USD $85.00
| CAD $112.5

Pub Date: 1/23/2018
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