'Niagara' (2021)

'Niagara' (2021)In the follow up to his critically acclaimed debut monograph Sleeping by the Mississippi, Alec Soth turned his eye to another iconic body of water, Niagara Falls. As with his photographs of the Mississippi, Soths pictures of Niagara are less about natural wonder than human desire. I went to Niagara for the same reason as the honeymooners and suicide jumpers, says Soth, the relentless thunder of the Falls just calls for big passion. Working over the

medium and large

1986) held his first solo exhibition in 2009 titled ‘Alternative-Kidz [Travelling Exhibition]’ at Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg

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Givon nurtured the careers of countless important South African artists and in so doing developed her enviable collection

1982) explores different configurations of line

He lives and works in Cape Town

this paperback edition is a facsimile of the book which earned Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin the 2013 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

Together these prints become hazy signals transmitted from the past

the confident young born frees

The book is fully illustrated and traces a visual logic from the earliest to the latest works using the format of the graphic novel

On Warhol’s photographs

1977) graduated from the University of Cape Town with a bachelor’s degree in fine art in 2001