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Roger Ballen

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


       

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Roger Ballen: Boyhood

DAMIANI

An expanded edition of Ballen’s debut photobook—a charming homage to the spirit of boyhood around the world

Hbk, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 112 pgs / 62 duotone. | 11/8/2022 | In stock
$55.00


Roger Ballen: Roger the Rat

HATJE CANTZ
Edited by Nadine Barth. Text by Roger Ballen.

Roger Ballen’s new rat-human character: a gothic allegory in immaculately composed photographs

Hbk, 8.75 x 8.75 in. / 128 pgs / 61 color. | 11/10/2020 | Out of stock
$32.00


Roger Ballen / Hans Lemmen: Unleashed

KERBER
Edited with text by Jan-Philipp Fruehsorge. Text by Claude d’Anthenaise, Stijn Huijts.

Pbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 144 pgs / 81 color / 26 bw. | 8/22/2017 | Out of stock
$45.00


Roger Ballen: Resurrected

KERBER
Edited by Pauli Sivonen, Ville Lenkkeri. Text by Riikka Ala-Harja, Marguerite Rossouw, et al.

Hbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 65 color / 6 bw. | 9/27/2016 | Out of stock
$49.95


  

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Roger Ballen: Animal Abstraction

REFLEX EDITIONS AMSTERDAM
Introduction by Wim Pijbes.

Hbk, 12 x 12.25 in. / 100 pgs / 49 tritone. | 5/31/2012 | Not available
$79.95


Roger Ballen: BoyhoodRoger Ballen: Boyhood

Published by Damiani.

This new and expanded edition of Roger Ballen’s (born 1950) widely acclaimed 1979 debut photobook Boyhood, admired by André Kertesz, Bruce Davidson and Elliott Erwitt, features new and unpublished images taken by the photographer in the 1970s.
In photographs and stories, Ballen leads us across the continents of Europe, Asia and North America in search of boyhood: boyhood as it is lived in the Himalayas of Nepal, the islands of Indonesia, the provinces of China, the streets of America. Each stunning black-and-white photograph—culled from 15,000 images shot during Ballen’s four-year quest—depicts the magic of boys revealed in their games, their adventures, their dreams, their mischief.
More of an ode than a documentary work, Ballen’s first book is as powerful and current today as it was 43 years ago—a stunning series of timeless images that transcend social and cultural particularities.



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Damiani

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Hardcover, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 112 pgs / 62 duotone.

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Catalog: FALL 2022 p. 96   

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ISBN 9788862087759 TRADE
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Roger Ballen: Roger the RatRoger Ballen: Roger the Rat

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited by Nadine Barth. Text by Roger Ballen.

Over the past 35 years, Johannesburg-based American photographer and painter Roger Ballen (born 1950) has developed a distinctively dark and eerie style—characterized by a simple square format and stark black and white—to create images of the South African social landscape and portraits of surreal vignettes.

In his latest volume Ballen expands on his longstanding predilection for unsettling interiors and spooky characters. Roger the Rat follows the life of a creature whose body is human but whose head is that of a rat. Ballen’s rat character interacts with mannequins, people and various objects in often cramped and oppressive rooms, in ways that defy explanation but seem at once humorous and sinister. This book gathers the series, made between 2015 and 2020.



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Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.75 x 8.75 in. / 128 pgs / 61 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2021 p. 27   

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ISBN 9783775748193 FLAT40
List Price: $32.00 CAD $44.50

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Roger Ballen / Hans Lemmen: UnleashedRoger Ballen / Hans Lemmen: Unleashed

Published by Kerber.
Edited with text by Jan-Philipp Fruehsorge. Text by Claude d’Anthenaise, Stijn Huijts.

Unleashed brings together two very different artists: Johannesburg-based photographer Roger Ballen (born 1950) and Dutch draftsman Hans Lemmen (born 1959). Their collaboration reveals a universe of surreal truths born out of a dialogue between their respective mediums of photography and drawing.



PUBLISHER
Kerber

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 144 pgs / 81 color / 26 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 198   

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ISBN 9783735603562 FLAT40
List Price: $45.00 CAD $60.00

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Roger Ballen: ResurrectedRoger Ballen: Resurrected

Published by Kerber.
Edited by Pauli Sivonen, Ville Lenkkeri. Text by Riikka Ala-Harja, Marguerite Rossouw, et al.

Resurrected is a multilayered installation by Johannesburg-based photographer Roger Ballen (born 1950), created in an abandoned family home in the Finnish woods. This publication documents the construction of this unique edifice, revealing Ballen’s original vision for the project.

PUBLISHER
Kerber

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.75 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 65 color / 6 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 165   

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ISBN 9783735602084 FLAT40
List Price: $49.95 CAD $67.50

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Roger Ballen: Animal AbstractionRoger Ballen: Animal Abstraction

Published by Reflex Editions Amsterdam.
Introduction by Wim Pijbes.

Animal Abstraction collects one body of work by photographer Roger Ballen (born 1950). Enigmatic, beautiful and often disturbing, these black-and-white photographs are staged in desolate interiors where humans interact with animals to create mysterious tableaux that reflect Ballen’s fascination with the animal kingdom.

PUBLISHER
Reflex Editions Amsterdam

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12 x 12.25 in. / 100 pgs / 49 tritone.

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Out of print

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Catalog: FALL 2012 p. 180   

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ISBN 9789071848001 TRADE
List Price: $79.95 CAD $95.00

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STATUS: Out of print | 00/00/00

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Roger Ballen: Photographs 1969-2009Roger Ballen: Photographs 1969-2009

Published by Kerber.
Text by Ulrich Pohlmann.

For more than 30 years now, American photographer Roger Ballen (born 1950) has been shooting portraits of the impoverished white population of rural South Africa. Likened to the work of master documentarians Walker Evans and Diane Arbus, Ballen's controversial photographs can be brutal, funny, tender and appalling. His day laborers and transients eek out a seemingly wretched existence in the country's so-called Platteland--a hermetically sealed world rarely captured on film. Ballen shoots exclusively in black and white, and portrays his subjects against the backdrop of their own living spaces, whose spartan interiors he transforms into claustrophobic, almost surrealistic stage sets, creating sculptural tableaux with wire, dilapidated furniture, animals and drawings. Published on the occasion of a retrospective at the Münchner Stadtmuseum, this monograph explores Ballen's extraordinarily expressive brand of photographic mythmaking.

PUBLISHER
Kerber

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11.75 x 11.75 in. / 148 pgs / 268 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2011 p. 97   

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ISBN 9783866784628 TRADE
List Price: $55.00 CAD $72.50

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STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

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