"FIGURES & FICTIONS: CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY" par Tamar GARB. Editions Steidl, Göttingen, en collaboration avec V&A Publishing, Londres. 2011. Imprimé en Allemagne. Petit in-4, couverture toilée grise sous jaquette photo. 312 pages. Texte en anglais de Tamar Garb, avant-propos de Martin Barnes, illustré de très nombreuses reproductions photographiques noir & blanc et couleurs, in-texte et hors texte, de 17 photographes allant de Jodi Bieber à Graeme Williams, en passant par David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Sabelo Mlangeni, Mickhael Subotzky... Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme au Victoria & Albert Museum de Londres, du 12 Avril au 17 Juillet 2011.

 

""Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography" presents the work of 17 photographers living and working in South Africa today. Their diverse images engage with South Africa's complex photographic and political past, addressing and reworking issues of identity across race, gender class and sexuality. The selection focuses on figural photography and the fictions or narrative structures that inform it. The work ranges from images of individuals and family groups to scenes depicting social rituals and daily life, elaborately staged scenarios and street fashion. Emerging from the haunting past of an apartheid state, South Africa has bred a generation of innovative and exciting photographers, seeking appropriate languages to confront the present and producing startling and compelling work."

 

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