The Cuban-born husband and wife team of Eduardo del Valle and Mirta Gomez has worked collaboratively for thirty years, receiving international acclaim for their photographs of subjects in a state of flux. From The Ground Up is a three-part photographic essay focusing on the metamorphosis of the vernacular architecture in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. This fascinating study, comprising photographs taken from the mid-1980s to the present, is surely the most comprehensive record of the design and evolution of this region’s built structures.
Published on the occasion of Magnum Photos’ seventieth anniversary, this fascinating in-depth survey brings Magnum’s history alive through the genre of the photobook ? an essential vehicle for photographers to share their work. Its pages include unpublished behind-the-scenes material, together with ephemera from the photographers’ archives about the making of their books. With an introduction…
In 2004, Guy Tillim was the recipient of the DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Photography. This overview of his work was published in conjunction with the award and the attendant exhibitions. A well-printed, nice selection of Tillim’s images.
“Intersections” is the term David Goldblatt has come to use for the cross-currents of “ideas, values, ethics, postures, people and things”that he has probed for more than 50 years in photographs of his native South Africa. (Mark Haworth-Booth)
This collection of portraits of women at the Cape brings to life some extraordinary personalities from the early day of the settlement. Cape Town was a wild frontier town, attracting the most desperate, hopeful and intrepid adventurers from the old world who both clashed and mingled with the local people.
Throughout her career, Cindy Sherman (born 1954) has been interested in exposing the darker sides of human nature, noticeable both in her selection of subject matter (fairytales, disasters, sex, horror, surrealism) and in her disquieting interpretations of well-established photographic genres, such as film stills, fashion photography and society portraiture.
“Usha Seejarim, on her first extended visit to Cape Town from Johannesburg, seized the opportunity to explore the city both as an everyday commuter and as a foreigner. Through the media of photography, video and sound recordings and documentation she sought to capture the diverse sights and sounds of Cape Town. Her focus ranged from…
Lien Botha is a Cape Town-based fine art photographer and installation artist, whose work has been widely exhibited and is to be found in major collections around South Africa.
Catalogue for Standard bank Artist of the Year, Grahamstown Festival, 2003. “This essay explores the relationship between fantasy and reality in the visual narratives of Berni Searle, and the ways in which she uses the racialised and gendered concepts of both her body and the body politic to stage these narrative identities. The essay…
