Particulars (ONE OF THE 25 COPIES WITH A PRINT)

David Goldblatt
Particulars (ONE OF THE 25 COPIES WITH A PRINT)

Photographs: David Goldblatt

Text: Ingrid de Kok

Publisher: Goodman Gallery Editions

60 pages

Pictures: 27

Year: 2003

Comments: In a slipcase, hardcover, 37,5 x 36 cm, b&w photographs. With no jacket as issued. First edition, 2003. Numbered special edition limited to 100 copies with a print (4 different prints in edition of 25). The print is 18 x 24 cm. Both the copy and print are signed and numbered by David Goldblatt. Scarce.

Following a series of portraits of his compatriots made at the beginning of the 1970s, photographer David Goldblatt, for a very short and intense period of time, naturally turned to focusing on peoples' particulars and individual body languages "as affirmations or embodiments of their selves." Goldblatt's affinity was no accident: Working at his father's men's outfitting store in the 1950s, his awareness of posture, gesture and proportion-technical as it was-formed early and would accompany him throughout his life. In this series we see hands resting on laps, crossed legs, the curved backs of sleepers on a lawn at midday, their fingers and feet relaxed, pausing from their usual occupations. This deeply contemplative work is framed by Ingrid de Kok's poetry.