1st Sep, 2019 9:30
Modern & Contemporary Art
33
David Goldblatt (South Africa 1930-2018)
Grandmother and Child, Transkei
hand printed gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper
Artwork date: signed, dated, inscribed with the title and 5 in pencil on the reverse
Signature details: 1975
Sold for R136,560
Estimated at R90,000 - R120,000
hand printed gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper
Artwork date: signed, dated, inscribed with the title and 5 in pencil on the reverse
Signature details: 1975
(1)
sheet size: 29 x 25.5 cm
Hand printed by the artist. Another example from the edition is in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.,
Notes:
In a lifetime of image making, the photographs from David Goldblatt’s body of work Particulars stands apart. Where Goldblatt regularly offers a studious survey of rich and broad context and associated peripheral layers of meaning, the Particulars images are singular in their focus. The series was an exploration undertaken largely in the mid 1970s, though not seen publicly as a coherent body of work until the 2003 publication and exhibition of the same title. Goldblatt shot both in Johannesburg’s Joubert Park, and on travels through the then-Transkei, in a six month period in which he described his image making as “...mostly portraits, quite formal encounters between the subjects and me, in which I was often intensely conscious of details: folds of flesh, the weight of limbs, roughness of hands, length of fingers ...repose and tension. Such awareness was part of the making of portraits. But I found out that it was the thing itself. For about six months in 1975 I become completely absorbed in exploring something that I had possibly had since childhood--a certain way of knowing our bodies; a heightened awareness of our particulars.
Kathryn Del Boccio
Sources:
[1] Kent, R. (ed.) (2018). David Goldblatt: Photographs 1948-2018. Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, p.260.
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Auction: Modern & Contemporary Art, 1st Sep, 2019
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