Rare and vintage prints from Ernest Cole’s House of Bondage series and work made in exile from the U.S. arrive at Magnum Gallery for Part II of a three-country exhibition. Part II follows the exhibition’s debut in London in November and precedes the final leg in Cape Town this February. Each part of the exhibition is distinct, spotlighting different prints from Cole’s archive.
The exhibition focuses primarily on House of Bondage, Cole’s landmark 1967 book — a harrowing but unflinching documentation of Apartheid-era South Africa. Prohibited in South Africa at the time of publication, House of Bondage persists as one of the most visceral visual testimonies against the horrors of racial segregation, oppression, and settler colonialism.
Apartheid and Beyond: Rare, Vintage Prints from Cole’s Collection
