Browsing: and multicultural joys

Ā Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography bookĀ House of Bondage, Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary inĀ The New York TimesĀ ran alongside a list of death notices.