Ballenesque - Roger Ballen - A Retrospective by Roger Ballen and Robert J. C. Young

Separated into four parts, Ballenesque takes readers on a visual, chronological journey through Roger Ballens entire oeuvre, including both iconic images and previously unpublished photographs. Part I explores his formative artistic influences and his later rediscovery of boyhood through photography, culminating in his first published monograph, Boyhood, in 1979. Part II then charts the period between 1980 and 2000, during which time his deeper search for the elemental self found its way into the Dorps, or small towns, of South Africa.