Particulars

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-86930-777-0
Verlag: Steidl Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 64 Seiten, LEINEN, Format (B × H): 345 mm x 362 mm, Gewicht: 1300 g

Following a series of portraits of his compatriots made in the
early 1970s, photographer David Goldblatt, for a very short and intense period of time, naturally turned to focusing on peoples’ particulars and individual body languages “as affirmations
or embodiments of their selves.” Goldblatt’s affinity was no accident: Working at his father’s men’s outfitting store in the 1950s, his awareness of posture, gesture and proportion—
technical as it was—formed early and would accompany him throughout his life.
In this series we see hands resting on laps, crossed legs, the
curved backs of sleepers on a lawn at midday, their fingers and feet relaxed, pausing from their usual occupations. This deeply contemplative work is framed by Ingrid de Kok’s poetry.
The photographs in Particulars were taken beginning in 1975,
and the first edition of the book was published by Goodman
Gallery, Johannesburg, in 2003. Goldblatt has revised Particulars for this new Steidl edition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldblatt, David

Über Autor(innen)

David Goldblatt, born in Randfontein in 1930, is a definitive photographer of his generation, esteemed for his engaged depiction of life in South Africa over a period of more than fifty years. Goldblatt took up photography full time in 1963. His work concerns above all human values and is a unique document of life during and after apartheid. Goldblatt’s photographs are held in major international collections, and his solo exhibitions include those at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1998, and the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris in 2011. In 1989 Goldblatt founded the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg to teach visual literacy and photography especially to those disadvantaged by apartheid.