3 March 2007 – 20 May 2007

DAVID GOLDBLATT - South African Photographs 1952-2006

David Goldblatt's photographic projects are all set in and deal with South Africa, and they are all occupied with the people, the work, the social constellations and the constructed and natural spaces of this country. They depict all this in a direct, tangible and concrete here and now, which is at the same time permeated by an awareness of the history, the structures and the balance of power from which the immediate present emerges in this country. In the series about mines and miners the closely-woven portrait of the Boers, also known as Afrikaners, the portrait of a small town inhabited by middle class white people, the vivid visualisation of the black people's excessively long way to work, the large-scale project on housing, shops and churches as "sculpted in stone" social structures, right up to the series of close-ups, the cropped images of gestures and attitudes and on to the new South Africa, to the colour photographs of urban officials, new work forms, the streets of Johannesburg and the constellations in the country.

Address

Fotomuseum Winterthur
Grüzenstrasse 44
8400 Winterthur
phone +41 52 233 60 86
http://www.fotomuseum.ch

Opening Hours

Tuesday-Sunday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., Wednesday - 8 p.m., closed on Monday.

Description of the Museum

The Fotomuseum Winterthur is building up a mainly contemporanean collection.

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