GOLDBLATT~David – Fifty-One Years*

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Author:Corinne Diserens, “Shifting Perceptions of Reality”; Okwui Enwezor, “Matter and Consciousness: An Insistent Gaze from a not Disinteressted Photographer”; J.M. Coetzee, “The Picturesque, the Sublime, and the South African Landscape”; Ivan Vladislavic, “An Accidenal Island (Street Addresses, Johannesburg, Second Cycle)”; Michael Godby, “David Goldblatt: The Personal and the Political”; Chris Killip, “A Photographer’s Life”; Nadine Gordimer, “Sudden Life, Never Seen or Suspected Before: David Goldblatt’s Photographs”; David Goldblatt, “Glossary”
Photographic Essays
Early, Some Afrikaners, On the Mines, Shaftsinking, Jo’burg Intersections: Soweto, -Suburbs, -Traffic, -Addresses, -Fietas, Particulars, Transkei, Boksburg, The Transported of KwaNdebele,
Year: 2001
Publisher: Museu d'Art Contemporani,Barcelona
ISBN: 84-95273-78-0

Softcover, 456 pages, 222 black-and-white full page photographs, English, 17,5 x 21,5 cm
Design: David Lorente, Ramon Prat
condition: new

 This catalogue has been published on the occasion of the touring exhibition David Goldblatt, Fifty-one Years, curated by Corinne Diserens and Okwui Enwezor, produced by the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) with the collaboration of AXA Gallery, New York.

David Goldblatt stands as South Africa's most respected and important documentary photographer. His work in his native country has consistently been uncompromising in its critical exploration of South African society, through the aparthied years during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, and into the more recent post-aparthied period. His body of photographs of the architecture of South Africa make an eloquent statement about the inequalities of life there: a beautiful villa on the sea juxtaposed with a black mother and child sleeping where their now destroyed house once stood; the beautifully detailed, whitewashed stairway of a winery and a man building a tiny house for himself out of cinder-block. This monograph, published on the occasion of a major retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, brings together work from throughout his career, including recent, never-before-published material. Its images of architecture, people, and landscape speak to the social injustice of his world, but also maintain a delicate balance with aesthetic achievement. It also includes essays by prominent South African writers Nadine Gordiner and J.M. Coetzee, and by Okwui Enwezor, curator of the upcoming Documenta XII exhibition. "Precise in description, Goldblatt's photographs are also acute in historical and political perception. They provide a sense of the texture of daily life, and an important piece of missing information regarding life under apartheid in South Africa." Susan Kismaric

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