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Beyond the Binary: Santu Mofokeng and David Goldblatt African Photography from The Walther Collection

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  • Beyond the Binary: Santu Mofokeng and David Goldblatt African Photography from The Walther Collection on Hardback by Tamar Garb
  • Beyond the Binary: Santu Mofokeng and David Goldblatt African Photography from The Walther Collection on Hardback by Tamar Garb
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This is the second publication in The Walther Collection Books series at Steidl, focusing on a dialogue between two of the most important South African photographers of the twentieth century—David Goldblatt (1930–2018) and Santu Mofokeng (1956–2020). There are both profound similarities and differ- ences between the two artists’ work. Goldblatt documented the ways in which architecture and spatial planning reflect the ideology of apartheid, and how the land continues to bear its legacy in post-apartheid South Africa. His investigations explore both actual structures and how mental constructs reveal how ideology has shaped our landscape. Mofokeng’s photo essays shed light on everyday life in South Africa, beyond the stereo- typical news pictures of Soweto depicting violence or poverty. Deeply personal, they record communities in townships and rural areas, religious rituals and landscapes imbued not only with his- torical significance but spiritual meaning, memory and trauma. The approach of Tamar Garb in Beyond the Binary is both dar- ing and inquisitive—she “scrambles” and reassembles Mofokeng’s and Goldblatt’s photographs, blurring the boundaries between them and creates juxtapositions and insights that challenge prevailing views of these established images. By delineating 15 viewpoints around the themes of “Earthscapes,” “Edifices,” and “Sociality,” Garb decontextualizes the work and creates a platform for comparing and rethinking the artists’ practices.

Author Biography:

Tamar Garb is Durning Professor in the History of Art at University College London. She has published widely on questions of gender and sexuality in modern and contemporary art as well as on photography from Africa, the work of women artists and feminist aesthetics. Garb’s curatorial practice includes “Gauguin: Maker of Myth,” Tate Modern, 2011; “Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography,” Victoria and Albert Museum, 2011; “Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive,” The Walther Collection, 2014; and “Made Routes: Vivienne Koorland and Berni Searle,” Richard Saltoun Gallery, 2019.
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June 27th, 2024
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  • General (US: Trade)
ISBN-13
9783969992586
Product ID
38685352

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