Roger Ballen

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Roger Ballen (born November 4, 1950 in New York City ) is an American photographer .

life and work

Ballen was born the son of a New York gallery owner who was on friendly terms with Henri Cartier-Bresson , Marc Riboud and other Magnum photographers. Ballen has been taking photographs since he was fourteen. He has lived in South Africa since the 1970s , where he first ended up in 1974. He worked there as a geologist , which brought him to the dorps , remote villages of the whites, which he photographed. He documented the poor dwellings first from the outside and later also from the inside, and finally also their inhabitants. During this time the well-known double portrait of Dresie and Casie was created . The apartheid regime allegedly did not like the documentation of poor whites through Ballen. Even so, Ballen continued to look for forbidden places, such as the Shadow Chamber , Boarding House and Asylum . All of these are places to which people who have suffered multiple injuries have fled. The residents were willing to act in stagings of Ballen, so that his style mutated from documentary photography to fiction. Pictures of special drama were created. The South African rap rave formation Die Antwoord formed in 2008 under the direct influence of Roger Ballen's work "Shadow Chamber". Since the jointly produced music video I Fink U Freeky from 2012, there has been repeated artistic collaboration. The Antwoord gave an exclusive concert on the occasion of Ballen's exhibition in Brussels on November 25th. The opening of a staff museum Roger Ballen Center for Photographic Arts in Johannesburg has been announced for 2020.

Books

  • Dorps: Small Towns of South Africa, Hirt and Carter, Cape Town, 1986
  • Platteland, William Waterman Publications, Brakpan 1994
  • Outland, Phaidon Press, London, 2001
  • Shadow Chamber, Phaidon Press, London, 2005
  • Boarding House, Phaidon Press, London, 2009
  • Roger Ballen and Die Antwoord: I Fink U Freeky, Random House Prestel, Munich 2013
  • Asylum of the Birds, Thames and Hudson, London 2014
  • The Theater of Apparitions, Thames & Hudson, London 2016
  • Unleashed, Kerber, Bielefeld 2017
  • Ballenesque, Roger Ballen: A Retrospective , Thames & Hudson, London 2017
  • The World According to Roger Ballen, Thames & Hudson, London 2019

Exhibitions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wladimir Autain, Roger Ballen: Inside Roger Ballen's Mind | Artist Interview | Vladimir Autain. December 1, 2019, accessed January 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Dresie and Casie
  3. ↑ Roger Ballen: Roger Ballen - 'A Good Picture Comes From Nowhere' | TateShots. Tate Gallery, July 5, 2018, accessed January 22, 2020 .
  4. ^ Roger Ballen Center for Photographic Arts. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
  5. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on November 18, 2014.
  6. ↑ MARTa Herford - Roger Ballen
  7. ↑ Roger Ballen in the Münchner Stadtmuseum ( memento from January 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 18, 2017
  8. ↑ Roger Ballen - Cabinet of Shadows in the Deichtorhallen
  9. ↑ Roger Ballen in the Westlicht ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.westlicht.com
personal data
SURNAME Ball, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 4th 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , USA