David Goldblatt in Color

Another artist who deals with deeper issues through photography of the landscape is the South African photographer David Goldblatt. Goldblatt is best known for his work during the apartheid era, including the highly regarded book In Boksburg, which portrayed a comfortable white town blissfully ignorant of the suffering of the majority of the country's population. Since the apartheid era ended, he has continued to concentrate on the South African landscape and its relationship to history and the contemporary problems facing the country.

Published as a book in 2005, Goldblatt's body of work, "Intersections", much of which can be found here, is remarkable for its understanding and dissection of contemporary South Africa, all the while maintaining a clear-eyed distance from its subjects. Made in large format color, it is among the best work of his career. As the link above shows, "Intersections" contains four separate series. I have included examples of three of these below.

David Goldblatt, On the stoep, Hondeklipbaai, Northern Cape. 13 September 2003, from "Landscapes"

David Goldblatt, Hoping for work, Middelburg, Eastern Cape. 24 November 2004, from "Landscapes"

David Goldblatt, Port Nolloth, Northern Cape, 28 December 2003, from "In the Time of AIDS"

David Goldblatt, Memorials: Heidi, Marius, Andri, Ruan, Near Maselspoort, Bloemfontein, Free State. 17 August 2004, from "Memorials"

David Goldblatt, The graves of the Cradock Four, Cradock, Eastern Cape. 14 October 2004, from "Memorials"

David Goldblatt's artist page at Goodman Gallery has a good selection of his recent work, including from "Intersections".

Mark Mawson

website

Edward Burtynsky

from the series "oil- transportation"

more work here.

Alison Brady

Her work is a series of color photographs that work to stimulate unconscious emotions, desires, and sexual compulsions, all unified within a dynamic that vacillates between the real and the fantasized. She explores issues related to madness and alienation as they exist in contemporary culture, concentrating on expressions of neurosis, on feelings of anxiety, displacement, and loss of identity.

for more work click here.

Todd Hido

images from his series "occupied homes"

for more work click here.

Matthew Baum

from the series "limelight"

for more click here!

naomi harris

post-shave coition / swingstock / black river falls, wi, 2003

viking and his girlfriend / swingstock / black river falls, wi, 2003

captain richy / bella vita all nude boating negatta / miami, fl 2006

thanksgiving dinner / big lake, mn, 2004
from 'america swings'
see more work here and here

Nicholas Prior

from the series "home(less)"

click here.

Youngna Park

from park's many series entitled "portraits"

click here!

Carl de Keyzer

from his series "kongo" . he has a lot of work and a fancy java website here.

also- don't know why it's underlined and blue.

Joshua Scott

Joshua Scott is a still life commercial photographer. These are from his "personal work"
site here

peter snyder

from 'idling,' 2007
see more here

a photographic series depicting people waiting at traffic lights in their cars
thought kayleen might be interested

Dina Kantor

from the series "finnish and jewish"

more of Kantor's work here.

Larry Sultan

sharon wild 2001

west valley # 13

tasha's third film 1998

from sultan's series "the valley" for more click here. (he doesn't have his own website- this is a link to the stephan wirtz gallery)

Amy Stein

untitled- spiderman

untitled-red queen

untitled-powderpuff girls

from the series "halloween in harlem"

for more images click here.

Jen Davis

the latest work from jen davis, still in progress

for more of these images, click here.