From the introduction, written by critic Ingrid Sischy:
“A highly sophisticated, even strict, sense of aesthetics, combined with a rigorous moral stance about what it means to take somebody’s photograph, is what sets Goldblatt’s work apart… The glue that holds this broad body of work together is a mix of Goldblatt’s highly attuned eye and his razor-sharp mind. His photographs are objects of thought, as much as they’re objects to behold.”
Published on the occasion of his exhibition at the Cape Town Jewish Museum, David Goldblatt’s Kith, Kin & Khaya: South African Photographs offers a survey of 150 photographs drawn from the artist’s expansive archive.
20 x 24 cm | 200 pages | softcover
One of South Africa’s most influential documentary photographers, the late David Goldblatt (b.1930; d.2018) is remembered for his enduring images of South Africa – its structures, landscape and people – which together notate the country’s transition from apartheid past to imperfect, democratic present.