African Design/2014/44 min/Reel № 14.001
ByDavid Goldblatt
David Goldblatt on life through the lens
A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014
A close reading, kept within reach.
David Goldblatt takes african design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in South Africa in 2014, the conversation is grounded in David's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
The veteran photographer selects 20 career-defining photos that open a window onto South Africa's conflicted history.
About the speaker
David Goldblatt
Johannesburg/South Africa
David Goldblatt is a South African photographer and the first South African to be given a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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