CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/20/2015

David Goldblatt: Particulars

"Man on bench, Joubert Park, Johannesburg." (1975) is reproduced from Steidl's exquisite, large-scale, linen-bound new edition of the classic 2003 publication, David Goldblat: Particulars, in which the photographer begins his illuminating introduction, "My first awareness of a bodily particular that I can recall was 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 realized 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." Goldblatt is one of the featurd photographers in the new issue of Capricious magazine, launching Sunday from 2-3:30PM in the ARTBOOK @ MoMA PS1 Magazine Store during the NYABF.