Fifty-One Years

by Goldblatt, David; Godby, Michael; Killip, Chris; Coetzee, J. M.; Museu D'Art Contemporani (Barcelona, Spain); Axa Gallery

• ISBN13: 9788495273789
• ISBN10: 8495273780
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Actarbirkhauser

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Shifting Perceptions of Reality	5	(8)
Corinne Diserens
Matter and Consciousness: An Insistent Gaze from a not Disinterested Photographer	13	(342)
Okwui Enwezor
Early	46	(24)
Some Afrikaners	70	(30)
On the Mines	100	(14)
Shaftsinking	114	(20)
Jo'burg Intersections:
Soweto	134	(24)
Suburbs	158	(28)
Traffic	186	(6)
Addresses	192	(26)
Fietas	218	(10)
Particulars	228	(14)
Transkei	242	(6)
Boksburg	248	(30)
The Transported of KwaNdebele	278	(12)
Structures	290	(65)
The Picturesque, the Sublime, and the South African Landscape	355	(28)
J. M. Coetzee
An Accidental Island (Street Addresses, Johannesburg, Second Cycle)	383	(24)
Ivan Vladislavic
David Goldblatt: The Personal and the Political	407	(20)
Michael Godby
A Photographer's Life	427	(4)
Chris Killip
Sudden Life, Never Seen or Suspected Before: David Goldblatt's Photographs	431	(13)
Nadine Gordimer
Glossary	444	(6)
David Goldblatt
Bibliography	450	(2)
Contributors	452