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Makarapa and Vuvuzela

Title: Makarapa and Vuvuzela

Photographer/s: Ian van Coller

Contributor/s: Zachary Allen
August Cary

Date of publication: 2011

Place of publication: Bozeman, Montana

Dimensions: 10″x8″

Edition size: 250

Type of binding: Soft Cover

Number of pages: 128

Type of paper: 150 gr UPM Finesse Silk

Number of pictures: 100

Type of printing: Offset

Printer: Oddi

Publisher: Doring Press

Designer: Ian van Coller

Language: English

ISBN: 978-0-9845001-1-6

Category: Book

Price: $34

Summary: In June and July of 2010, South Africa hosted the largest and most popular sporting event in the world. This is the first time that the FIFA World Cup (European Football) has been held on the continent of Africa. Sixteen years after the end of apartheid this event represents a particularly important time in South African history, where South Africa was able to stage a massive “coming out” party for the rest of the world

This series of photographs focuses on South African national identity expressed through portraiture of football fans as well landscapes of football fields around the country. South African soccer fans are particularly “colorful” and are known for their trumpeting of Vuvuzelas and their outrageously adorned headgear. These incredibly artful creations, known as Makarabas, have their origins in the mining hardhats that were once synonymous with black migrant workers of the apartheid-era. Today, these mining helmets have been transformed into colorful symbols of a uniquely South African national identity, and are now donned by both blacks and whites.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 1970, Johannesburg, South Africa

Website: www.ianvancoller.com

Book link: http://worldcup2010.ianvancoller.com/

Donated by: Ian van Coller

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Published on March 3, 2011 3:34 pm.
Filed under: Books Tags: 2011, Doring Press, Ian van Coller, Makarapa and Vuvuzela, Oddi, offset, South Africa, USA, World Cup

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