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FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, S'KOP, WAKE UP THIS IS JOHANNESBURG, Book 2/10, a ten book series about Johannesburg, Mark Lewis and Tanya Zack, Book 2 of Wake Up, This is Joburg, With Portuguese translation by Euridice Getulio Kala and Rita Rodrigues Aguiar, Fourthwall Books, 2014, softcover, illustrated, 32 pages, 19.5 cms x 25.5 cms, condition : as new.
In the nondescript working class suburb of Turffontein, which has always hosted migrants, a restless outsider ar tist is at work transforming his home into a veritable castle of lights, turrets, murals, manikins and stairways. He is an obsessive collector of waste, but also an entrepreneur whose property is home to 17 rent-paying households. Writer and urban planner Tanya Zack and photographer Mark Lewis dig up another story of a remarkable citizen of the city who has spent most of his life transforming 500 square metre patch of urban soil.
Now long out of print and exceedingly rare.