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Ernest Cole: House of Bondage


  • Aperture (Ingram)
  • by Photography by Ernest Cole. Texts: Oluremi C. Onabanjo, James Sanders. Preface: Mongane Wally Serote
First published in 1967, Ernest Cole's House of Bondage has been lauded as one of the most significant photobooks of the twentieth century, revealing the horrors of apartheid to the world for the first time and influencing generations of photographers around the globe. Reissued for contemporary audiences, this edition adds a chapter of unpublished work found in a recently resurfaced cache of negatives and recontextualizes this pivotal book for our time.

ISBN 9781597115339 | EN | HB
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Publisher Aperture (Ingram)
ISBN 9781597115339
Author(s) Photography by Ernest Cole. Texts: Oluremi C. Onabanjo, James Sanders. Preface: Mongane Wally Serote
Publication date December 2022
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 290 x 213 mm
Pages 216
Language(s) English ed.
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First published in 1967, Ernest Cole’s House of Bondage has been lauded as one of the most significant photobooks of the twentieth century, revealing the horrors of apartheid to the world for the first time and influencing generations of photographers around the globe. Reissued for contemporary audiences, this edition adds a chapter of unpublished work found in a recently resurfaced cache of negatives and recontextualizes this pivotal book for our time.

Cole, a Black South African man, photographed the underbelly of apartheid in the 1950s and ’60s, often at great personal risk. He methodically captured the myriad forms of violence embedded in everyday life for the Black majority under the apartheid system––picturing its miners, its police, its hospitals, its schools. myriad forms of violence embedded in everyday life for the Black majority under the apartheid system––picturing its miners, its police, its hospitals, its schools. In 1966, Cole fled South Africa and smuggled out his negatives; House of Bondage was published the following year with his writings and first-person account. This edition retains the powerful story of the original while adding new perspectives on Cole’s life and the legacy of House of Bondage. It also features an added chapter—compiled and titled “Black Ingenuity” by Cole—of never-before-seen photographs documenting the music, dance, art, and film that took place despite of and in resistance to apartheid. Made available again nearly fifty-five years later, House of Bondage remains a visually powerful and politically incisive document of the apartheid era.


Ernest Cole (1940–1990; born in Transvaal, South Africa) is best known for House of Bondage, a photobook published in 1967 that chronicles the horrors of apartheid. After fleeing South Africa in 1966, he became a “banned person,” settling in New York. He was associated with Magnum Photos and received funding from the Ford Foundation to undertake a project looking at Black communities and cultures in the United States. Cole spent an extensive time in Sweden and became involved with the Tiofoto collective. He died at age forty-nine of cancer. In 2017, more than 60,000 of Cole’s negatives - missing for more than forty years - resurfaced in Sweden.

Ernest Cole: House of Bondage

Ernest Cole: House of Bondage

€68.50