David Goldblatt TJ Johannesburg Photograph 1948 - 2010

DAVID GOLDBLATT TJ

JOHANNESBURG PHOTOGRAPHS 1948-2010

2011 SOFTCOVER  315 PAGES 

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So begins David Goldblatts introduction to TJ, a book of photographs of Johannesburg: the City of Gold, Chowburg, eGoli, Jozi, Goutini, Duiwels Dorp. Commencing in the 1950s, his masterful lens probes, documents and comments on life over six decades in this incomparable African city. Selected form a massive body of work, this superb distillation presents a unique pictorial history of the city.

Almost all of Goldblatts photographs have different layers of interpretation through which the viewers, according to their experience and previous knowledge, unravel a tale. Indeed, behind each one of Goldblatts images there are several stories, most of them related to vital questions, which affect in a direct or tangential way the values by which the country (South Africa) moved and moves. Throughout his career, Goldblatt has been searching for a photograph that would discover, probe, reveal or clarify some of these values.

Content: TJ. Johannesburg Photographs 1948-2010

The Photographs
1950s + 60s
Soweto
1970s
City + Suburbs
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s