Book
Review
Gaze:
Micheal Meyersfield
Renowned
photographer Micheal Meyersfield
recently brought out a coffee
table
book entitled "Gaze"
in which he tries to explore
queer life in Southern
Africa, via photographic
portraiture.
Justice
Edwin Cameron said of the book:
"Meyersfield's portraits
give us a glimpse
of a humanity beyond race and
class and physical circumstance.
They challenge
us to see the beauty in how we
were created, in the fragility
of our
common flesh. And the boldness
of his creation inspires us to
reflect, inwardly,
on the high possibilities of
achevement we share as
humans."
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Prominent
and some not so
prominent South African
gays and lesbians
feature in
the book and where
Meyersfield tried to
encompass all of South
African queer
life, the
book mainly focusses on
the more afluent. It
still points to the
imbalances of our local
queer life and hopefully
his next project will
focus
more on the broader
spectrum of South
African queer society.
The
book, however, have
historical merit simply
because a project of
this nature
have not |
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attempted before and the
rare quality of
Micheal's portraits
make the rather hefty
shelf price of
"Gaze",
worthwhile. |
Micheal
Meyersfield's "Gaze"
is available from Exclusive
Books for R600 per
copy
and from Ultra Violet Books in
Melville, Johannesburg for R550
per copy. |
