One of South Africa’s master photographers, David Goldblatt goes over his carreer, his country, his productions, and his books,
in a conversation with Baptiste Lignel.
From the early days as an editorial photographer for local magazines in the 1950s to his international reconnaissance as a major author and analyst of the complexities of his home country.
An in-depth exploration of his work with an insight into his own defining references.
After being sold out for some time, this is a new and final edition with updated contents.
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This special issue is a collection of testimonies by contemporary authors -photographers, painters, curators, writers- regarding David Goldblatt. They highlight how his work may have impacted theirs.
With contributions from Akinbode Akindiyi, Els Barents, Jodi Bieber, Jabulani Dhlamani, Rahima Gambo, Paul Graham, Hélène Jayet, William Kentridge, Chris Killip, Susan Kismaric, Rania Matar, Gideon Mendel, Sabelo Mlangeni, Sean O'Toole, Martin Parr, Marion Poussier, Mark Power, Deborah Poynton, Walid Raad, Ruth Seopedi-Motau, Guy Tillim, Peter Van Agtmael, Marlene Van Niekerk, Ivan Vladislavic, Lori Waselchuk, Paul Weinber, Graeme Williams, Donovan Wylie, and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska.
Includes a preface by Brenda Goldblatt, and a postface by Baptiste Lignel.
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One of the leading figures in the American tradition of color landscape photography, Richard Misrach alternates between socially significant projects and series of a more contemplative nature, questioning the very medium he uses as much as the world he lives in.
“The desert” is the central allegory and backbone of his oeuvre composed of “cantos”.
An in-depth exploration of his work with an insight into his own defining references.
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Photographers' References is a book collection of in-depth interviews with established photographers.
Each conversation held over an extended period of time exposes a photographer's thought processes and provides insight into their pratice, mapping out personnal references and influences that have contributed to shape their distinctive visual language.
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"What a killer idea. Looks stunning. Bravo !"
Alec Soth
"I love this idea of the genealogy of references and how it can be visualized".
Susan Meiselas
"Long interviews can be hard to read, but this one isn’t. I read the book in four sittings, and I didn’t feel I was missing anything, given that the book’s organization helped me stay focused (or become re-focused each time)."
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