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Author Garb, Tamar.

Title Figures & fictions : contemporary South African photography / Tamar Garb
Published Göttingen : Steidl, 2011

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Description 312 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Contents Foreword / Martin Barnes -- Figures and fictions: South African photography in the perfect tense / Tamar Garb -- Plates -- Interviews and artists' statements -- Thinking from the South: reflections on image and place / Tamar Garb ... [et al.] -- Exhibition checklist
Summary Presents images, with a focus on figural photography, produced between 2000 and 2010 by 17 South African photographers: David Goldblatt, Santu Mofokeng, Guy Tillim, Pieter Hugo, Zwelethu Methethwa, Berni Searle, Jodi Bieber, Terry Kurgan, Zanele Muholi, Hassan and Husain Essop, Roelof van Wyk, Graeme Williams, Kudzanai Chiurai, Sabelo Mlangeni, Jo Ractliffe, Mikhael Subotzky, and Nontsikelelo Veleko
Notes "Published to coincide with the exhibition Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography in the Porter Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, curated by Tamar Garb and Martin Barnes, 12 April - 17 July, 2011"--T.p. verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-85)
Subject Porter Gallery (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Human beings in art -- Exhibitions.
Photographers -- South Africa -- Interviews.
Photographers -- South Africa.
Photography -- South Africa -- History -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.
Photography -- South Africa -- History -- 21st century.
Photography -- South Africa -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.
Photography -- South Africa.
Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic.
Portrait photography -- South Africa -- Exhibitions.
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Interviews.
Author Barnes, Martin, 1971-
Victoria and Albert Museum. Porter Gallery
ISBN 3869302666
9783869302669
Other Titles Figures and fictions