ROGER BALLEN: BOYHOOD

(BALLEN, ROGER). Ballen, Roger

ISBN 10: 0877540918 / ISBN 13: 9780877540915

Published by Chelsea House Publishers, New York, 1979

96pp, 79 b&w illustrations. Art Direction by Susan Lusk. Designed by Joyce C. Weston. "Boyhood is a powerful and perceptive statement. In photographs and stories, Roger Ballen leads us across the continents of Europe, Asia, and North America in search of boyhood. Here, with keen insight and masterly skill, he succeeds in capturing the essence of boyhood in a series of timeless images that transcend social and cultural particularities". If you are knowingly searching for this title, could we add any more insight than the jacket description for "Boyhood"? While Ballen has subsequently become renowned for his sobering portrait images of the denizens of his adopted South Africa, this, his first book from 1979 is where it all began. The back cover features laudatory quotes from Andre Kertesz, Bruce Davidson, and Elliot Erwitt. A bright, most handsome example of the book itself whose neatly price-clipped dust jacket shows some very light wear and rubbing. Seller Inventory # 018231

Synopsis:

"In photographs and stories, Roger Ballen leads us across the continents of Europe, Asia, and North America in search of boyhood as it is lived in the Himalayas of Nepal, the islands of Indonesia, the provinces of China, the streets of America. Each stunning photograph [culled from 15,000 boy photos shot during Ballen's four-year quest of his subject] depicts the magic of boys revealed in their games, their adventures, their dreams, their mischief. We begin to see that boys everywhere, no matter how dissimilar their cultures, share a brotherhood." --Excerpted from the dust-jacket.

Bibliographic Details

Title: ROGER BALLEN: BOYHOOD
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers, New York
Publication Date: 1979
Binding: Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
Book Type: Photography Monograph