Ivan Vladislavi? — Double Negative

London: & Other Stories, 2013. 8vo. [ca 245 pp.]. Good. Soft Cover. Beige, printed wraps with French folds. Minor stain on front cover. Else fine. Race, politics, identity, photography: South African writer Ivan Vladislavic reminds us nothing is black and white. Dropout Neville Lister accompanies acclaimed photographer Saul Auerbach for a day, to learn a lesson for life. They play a game: from a hill above Johannesburg they pick three houses and decide to knock on their doors in search of a story. Auerbach's images of the first two will become classic portraits, but soon the light fades. Lister only reaches the third house decades later, returning to post-apartheid South Africa and a Johannesburg altered almost beyond recognition. ISBN: 9781908276261 1908276266. .