BALLEN, Roger

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Description

Adolescent in Bedroom (Outland Series)
ca. 1998; reprinted 2016
Gelatin silver print, AP 3/5
24 3/8" x 24"
Image was initially illustrated in the photographer's publication Outland, 2001, and republished in an expanded edition, 2015. In this publication Ballen documents the small 'dorps' or villages of rural South Africa and their inhabitants: isolated rural whites, scarred by history. This black and white photo is of a young boy holding a toy race car against a wall filled with doodles; on reverse signed, dated with edition 3/5.

Date

ca. 1998; reprinted 2016

Creator

Ballen, Roger
American, b. 1950

Source

Gift of Dana & Eric Newman

Identifier

2017.017.025

Collection

Citation

Ballen, Roger and American, b. 1950, “BALLEN, Roger,” UCSB ADA Museum Omeka, accessed March 28, 2024, http://art-collections.museum.ucsb.edu/items/show/9061.