This fantastic photobook is a wonderful example of documentary photography at its best. In a searing indictment of the South African apartheid regime under which he lived, Cole's photographs expose the daily reality of poverty and discrimination under which the black population lived. "The furore it [the book] caused made him a perhaps reluctant hero for a generation of aspiring black photographers; despite the success of the book, he never worked again in his homeland, and died penniless and in exile in the United States in 1990." As for the book, "The comprehensiveness and humanity of its view is the reason for both its banning in South Africa and the plaudits it garnered elsewhere." Listed in Parr and Badger The Photobook Vol 2, page 106-107 Condition - very good. Clean, tight copy in very good dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover (hidden by dust jacket). Please examine photographs carefully.