"PARTICULARS" par David GOLDBLATT. Editions Steidl, Göttingen. 2014. Imprimé en Allemagne. Grand in-4 carré, couverture toilée orange titrée. Non paginé (64p). Texte en anglais, illustré de 27 reproductions photographiques noir & blanc, hors texte, par David Goldblatt.

 

"My first awareness of a bodily particular that I can recall was of the bulges made by the flattened flesh of my inner thighs as I sat in shorts on a kindergarten bench. From where I saw them my bulges seemed more pronounced than anyone else's and I tried to hide them with my hands and my slate. After a time, I realised that my thighs were no different from others. But the inner parts remained an area of the body of which I was especially aware and which, in time, came to have a strong attraction for me in girls. I have never been able to decide whether my sense of people's bodies is something I share with others or whether mine is different. But I know that it has been with me for a very long time and that it is often vivid and detailed. It is fed by life experiences and is sometimes intensified by that state of acute awareness that photography enables and demands. Of my life experiences one that was crucial was that of working in my father's shop in Randfontein, where I acquired a consciousness of bodily particulars that was technical rather than subjective…" David Goldblatt.

 

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