{"product_id":"nollywood-pieter-hugo-edicion-especial-2009","title":"Nollywood — Pieter Hugo,  Special Edition (Signed + C print) , 2009","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"148\" data-end=\"719\"\u003eThis special edition of \u003cem data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"183\"\u003eNollywood\u003c\/em\u003e by Pieter Hugo, published by Prestel in 2009, is part of the Darwin Bookshop for its brutal, theatrical clarity in documenting Africa’s second-largest film industry—and the imagined worlds it generates. Produced in Nigeria in collaboration with local actors and communities, Hugo’s staged portraits re-enact the hallucinatory iconography of Nollywood cinema: ritual killings, zombie brides, corrupt officials, spirits caught mid-exorcism. The result is an unsettling taxonomy of visual archetypes, both hyper-stylised and deeply local.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"721\" data-end=\"1281\"\u003eThis collector’s edition, limited to 150 copies, includes a signed and numbered C-print titled \u003cem data-start=\"816\" data-end=\"860\"\u003eSong Iyke with Ebube, Thank God and Mpompo\u003c\/em\u003e, Enugu, Nigeria, 2008. The photograph is signature Hugo—raw light, scorched landscape, and a cast of boys embodying myth and menace with the casual confidence of children raised among ghosts. The book itself is bound in black faux leather with gilt titling, inset with an image of a man in a suit standing over a freshly slaughtered cow, drenched in red. It's a hard object: sacred and cinematic, staged yet documentary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1283\" data-end=\"1579\"\u003eWith essays by Chris Abani, Stacy Hardy, and Zina Saro-Wiwa, this volume situates Hugo’s work within a broader narrative of African self-representation and the seductive power of fiction. Each photograph suggests that performance is not escape, but survival; not illusion, but cultural assertion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1600\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1600\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1602\" data-end=\"1637\"\u003eTitle\u003cbr data-start=\"1607\" data-end=\"1610\"\u003eNollywood (Special Edition)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1639\" data-end=\"1668\"\u003eArtist \/ Author\u003cbr data-start=\"1654\" data-end=\"1657\"\u003ePieter Hugo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1670\" data-end=\"1681\"\u003eDate\u003cbr data-start=\"1674\" data-end=\"1677\"\u003e2009\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1683\" data-end=\"1760\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method\u003cbr data-start=\"1710\" data-end=\"1713\"\u003eOffset printing\u003cbr data-start=\"1728\" data-end=\"1731\"\u003eC-print (signed and numbered)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1762\" data-end=\"1888\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials\u003cbr data-start=\"1780\" data-end=\"1783\"\u003eHardcover, faux leather with gold embossing and tipped-in image\u003cbr data-start=\"1846\" data-end=\"1849\"\u003eAccompanied by loose photographic print\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1890\" data-end=\"1990\"\u003eEdition\u003cbr data-start=\"1897\" data-end=\"1900\"\u003eSpecial edition of 150 copies (this is No. 129\/150)\u003cbr data-start=\"1951\" data-end=\"1954\"\u003eIncludes signed and numbered C-print\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1992\" data-end=\"2021\"\u003eSigned\u003cbr data-start=\"1998\" data-end=\"2001\"\u003eYes (book and print)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2023\" data-end=\"2081\"\u003eDimensions (cm)\u003cbr data-start=\"2038\" data-end=\"2041\"\u003eBook: 29 x 29 cm\u003cbr data-start=\"2057\" data-end=\"2060\"\u003ePrint: 27.5 x 27.5 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2083\" data-end=\"2101\"\u003eLanguage\u003cbr data-start=\"2091\" data-end=\"2094\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2103\" data-end=\"2114\"\u003ePages\u003cbr data-start=\"2108\" data-end=\"2111\"\u003e160\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2116\" data-end=\"2144\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor\u003cbr data-start=\"2134\" data-end=\"2137\"\u003ePrestel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2146\" data-end=\"2161\"\u003eCondition\u003cbr data-start=\"2155\" data-end=\"2158\"\u003eNew\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51893767766354,"sku":null,"price":700.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/MAISONSCLOSES_1_f8deed02-3ee5-4ee3-89f8-d7d28d963a01.jpg?v=1768210682","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/nollywood-pieter-hugo-edicion-especial-2009","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}