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Steidl publishes 'David Goldblatt: Some Afrikaners Photographed' |
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David Goldblatt: Some Afrikaners Photographed. Text by Antjie Krog and Ivor Powell. Hardback / Clothbound. US$ 65.00 / 58.00. ISBN 978-3-95829-551-3.
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NEW YORK, NY.- Goldblatt began working on Some Afrikaners Photographed, first published in 1975, in 1963. He had sold his fathers clothing store where he worked, and become a full-time photographer. The ruling Afrikaner National Partymany of its leaders and members had supported the Nazis in the Second World Warwas firming its grip on the country in the face of black resistance. Yet Goldblatt was drawn not to the events of the time but to the quiet and commonplace where nothing happened and yet all was contained and immanent. Through these photos he explored his ambivalence towards the Afrikaners he knew from his fathers store. Most, he guessed, were National Party voters, yet he experienced them as austere, upright, unaffected people of rare generosity of spirit and earthy humor. Their potency and contradictions moved and disturbed him; their influence pervaded his life.
The book includes an essay by South African writer Antjie Krog: Three kinds of Afrikaners look out at us from these photographs, she writes, of which the poor Afrikaner is the most hauntingthe simple one who, by the sweat of his brow, eats his bread in isolation. Art critic Ivor Powell charts the outraged reaction of the Afrikaner media towards photos that showed rural Afrikaners at a time when the Afrikaner elite was trying to establish itself on the international stage, as well as his own reaction to the original book: It was all but incandescent with tension and revelation, with a sense of souls being held up to scrutiny, of skins being peeled away.
David Goldblatt (19302018) was a South African photographer renowned for documenting his homeland during and after apartheid. He created landmark visual essays that explored diverse subjects united by his primary concern: the values with which South Africans shaped their world and their expression in its landscapes. Widely exhibited and collected by museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Goldblatt published over 20 books and won the HCB and Hasselblad Awards. Goldblatts books with Steidl include On the Mines (2012), The Transported of KwaNdebele (2013) and Structures of Dominion and Democracy (2018).
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