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Objectionable extracts
Cover: Jacobsen’s Publishers, “Jacobsens” Index of Objectionable Literature (1991), Pretoria: Jacobsen’s Publishers.
Maker "Jacobsens" Index of Objectionable Literature Shared by Sean O'Toole Date shared 11 February 2022 Projects Source Process

Photocopies from "Jacobsens" Index of Objectionable Literature were placed about Photo book! Photo-book! Photobook! alongside corresponding books that once found themselves listed in the Index's pages. In deinstalling the exhibition, these facsimiles were collected and compiled in both a physical and digital folder.

The Index offered, as per its subheading, "A complete list of all publications in alphabetical order, together with authors, prohibited from importation into South Africa and all other banned literature."

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