House of Bondage, Research and Book project
- ZA HPRA A3440-A-A3
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House of Bondage, Research and Book project
Other negative and contact sheets folders
Vintage prints, no description
Depicting life of Afro-Americans in the rural South, but also urban settings.
Including interviews conducted by Ernst Cole of Gideon Nxumalo, and a ship servant, no transcripts; a Vinyl containing 'Horace Faith, Black pearl / help Me Help Myself, Hotshot' / Sonet Records, licensed by Trojan, 1970.
Newspaper clips, magazines, some with notes spanning a wide spectrum of topics. As noted by his agency Magnum Photos: "impressions are of a guy who’s enjoying being in a new city, discovering new people with new attitudes, even if his notes betray sarcasm toward some of the experience. He was clearly interested in aspects of New York life that were taboo in apartheid-era South Africa. There are plenty of pictures of racially mixed couples, anti-government protests and of the burgeoning pleasure industry."
Exhibition prints, Hasselblad Foundation
Exhibition prints made by the Hasselblad Foundation, including duplicates.
These images were published in the book "House of Bondage". Each of the 184 photographs originate from one of the folders in B2.1-24, from which they were extracted. The images which were selected for the book are marked on the original contact sheets and the negative sheets.
Articles about Ernest Cole after he settled in the US and book reviews of "House of Bondage", after it was published in 1967.
Including copies and original letters from Struan Robertson; various persons acknowledging receipt of "House of Bondage"; typed copy of a letter by Ernest Cole to The New York Times, pointing out corrections to the article "A South African talks about U.S., 12 December 1967, with newspaper article attached containing red underlining by Ernest Cole; references by various entities, photo studies and journalists, including Magnum, Life, Random House and The Ford Foundation; typed copy of a letter by Ernest Cole to The Ford Foundation re. his application for a grant, 17 September 1968; typed and signed letter by Ernest Cole on his letterhead, written to Camera Mainichi magazine in Japan, 25 October 1968; permission given by Ernest Cole to the UN Public Information Section, to use photographs from "House of Bondage"; correspondence with John Hillelson, Magnum agent for Ernest Cole in the UK.
Life in the USA, including amongst others: photos of the boxer Muhammad Ali, the singer Aretha Franklin, and the South African Jazz artist Hugh Masekela who was also in exile in the USA.