Download or read book Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked written by Ivan Vladislavic and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical series of portrait-style observations considers the city's dynamic, day-to-day transformations through descriptions of such subjects as the use of manholes as cupboards by the homeless, a public statue that is slowly dismantled for scrap, and the ways in which the post-apartheid period has prompted a growth in local security efforts. Original.