Undercity – The Other Cape Town — David Lurie, 2017

Cape Town without the postcard. David Lurie turns away from the tourist veneer and photographs the city’s margins—industrial zones, emptied streets at dawn, scarred walls beneath Table Mountain. The work dissects infrastructure and surface, exposing how power and inequality are embedded in urban space. Published by Hatje Cantz in 2017 following the A4 Arts Foundation exhibition, this 144-page volume extends Lurie’s sustained examination of post-apartheid geography with restraint and clarity.

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Title: Undercity – The Other Cape Town
Artist / Author: David Lurie
Editor: Nadine Barth
Preface: Albie Sachs
Texts: Daniel Herwitz, David Lurie, James Sey
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Date: 2017
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Images: 61
Dimensions (cm): 24 × 34.5 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-7757-4327-3