Fine Print: Waiting on the arrival of Nelson Mandela. Lamontville, Natal, South Africa, 1994 Vintage A future classic of photography

A future classic of photography

Chris Steele-Perkins was commissioned by The Sunday Times Magazine to travel to Wolverhampton

and a central importance

he returned to the United States and studied in Alexei Brodovitch’s ‘design laboratory’

Fine Print: Waiting on the arrival of Nelson Mandela. Lamontville, Natal, South Africa, 1994 Vintage A future classic of photographyIn the post war period, the South African government gradually developed a policy of apartheid that was meant to permanently retain the rights and privileges of a white minority. While racial prejudices create difficulties in many societies, only in South Africa was segregation institutionalized and regulated. The results were tragic and disturbing. The camera of Ian Berry has uniquely recorded this aspect of the South African experience: the duty to