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Roger BallenWW-2010-011124
2010·archival pigment print·Image: 75 x 70.4 cm (29 1/2 x 27 11/16 in.); Paper: 91.8 x 91.4 cm (36 1/8 x 36 in.)
Gift of Hugh Lawson
Catalogue
- Year
- 2010
- Medium
- archival pigment print
- Dimensions
- Image: 75 x 70.4 cm (29 1/2 x 27 11/16 in.); Paper: 91.8 x 91.4 cm (36 1/8 x 36 in.)
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Artist
- Roger Ballen
Artist
Roger Ballen
Photography
Roger Ballen is a South African photographer known for black-and-white images of rural and urban communities characterized by stark formal composition and unflinching psychological intensity. Working primarily in South Africa since the 1980s, his photographs document marginal figures and deteriorating domestic spaces with a documentary rigor that resists sentimentality. His images combine portraiture, still life, and architectural detail into densely layered compositions that reveal both material hardship and human resilience. Ballen's work has established him as a major voice in contemporary documentary photography.
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- Roger Ballen
- Year
- 2010
- Medium
- archival pigment print
- Dimensions
- Image: 75 x 70.4 cm (29 1/2 x 27 11/16 in.); Paper: 91.8 x 91.4 cm (36 1/8 x 36 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-2010-011124
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- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Source
- cleveland
- Reference
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