David Goldblatt: Regarding Intersections

David Goldblatt

ISBN 10: 3869307145 / ISBN 13: 9783869307145

Published by Steidl, 2014

About this Item

Between 1999 and 2011 David Goldblatt created personal photography in color for the first time. This book brings together a selection of Goldblatts color photography in South Africa from 2002 to 2011. Num Pages: 200 pages, chiefly illustrations (colour). BIC Classification: AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 269 x 335 x 30. Weight in Grams: 2190. . 2014. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: David Goldblatt: Regarding Intersections
• Publisher: Steidl
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3869307145
• ISBN 13: 9783869307145
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Between 1999 and 2011, David Goldblatt did work that he had not previously attempted: personal photography in color. While he had used color extensively in professional work since 1964, he had done almost no personal photography in this medium. But with the new political dispensation as well as technical advances through digital reproduction from film he felt the time was right for him to photograph in color. At first, Goldblatt photographed in his immediate area, Johannesburg. He then decided to look at South Africa by taking photographs within no more than a radius of 500 meters of each of the 122 points of intersection of a whole degree of latitude and a whole degree of longitude within its borders. However, after going to a number of intersections where there was nothing at all that stirred him to photograph, he realized that he was in danger of becoming slave to a formula. After abandoning the initial project he retained the idea of intersections. From time to time, over a period of nine years, he travelled the country in search of intersections-intersections of ideas, values, histories, conflicts, congruencies, fears, joys and aspirations-and the land in which and often because of which these happened.

This book brings together a selection of Goldblatt's color photography in South Africa from 2002 to 2011. An earlier version, Intersections, was published by Prestel in 2005, and the catalogue Intersections Intersected, consisting of paired black-and-white and color photographs, was published by Serralves Museum, Porto, in 2008.

Review

The color images reflect a cautious hope for, or even observation of, rejuvenation and integration across a very broad canvas. (George Slade photo-eye blog)