TJ : Johannesburg photographs, 1948-2010
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TJ : Johannesburg photographs, 1948-2010
Contrasto, 2010
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"TJ/Double negative is a joint project by photographer David Goldblatt and the writer Ivan Vladislavić, comprising a book of photographs and a novel. In TJ, Goldblatt presents 270 images drawn from more than sixty years of photographing Johannesburg and its people. Vladislavić's novel Double negative was written specially to accompany the images. Together the two volumes create a resonant conversation between image and text."--Slipcase
Sold together with Double negative (Novel) by Ivan Vladislavić.
In cardboard slipcase
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This publication is the product of the collaboration of two of the finest creative individuals at work in South Africa today, a photographer and a novelist, on a project that is the city of Johannesburg. 'Johannesburg is a fragmented city. It is not a place of smoothly integrated parts. And it has a name that does not roll easily off the tongue.' So begins David Goldblatt's introduction to TJ, a book of photographs of Johannesburg. Commencing in the 1950s, his masterful lens probes, documents and comments on life over six decades in this incomparable African city. Selected from a massive body of work, this superb distillation presents a unique pictorial history of the city. A new novel by Ivan Vladislavic partners the book of photographs. In Double Negative, a young man in Johannesburg receives an induction into the intricate nature of photography and artistic representation. The novel traces the young man as he heads into his career that takes him overseas and back, developing in the process an ever widening perspective on not only the social and political change in the country but also on questions to do with observation and the observing subject. It brings into sharp focus the history of South Africa's recent past and the difficulty of imaging and re-imagining it.
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