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A major retrospective of David Goldblatt‘s photographs opens next month at the Jewish Museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. (Previews are next week). I am especially looking forward to it since I had a small consultancy role working with the Museum and did some of the audio guide for the exhibition. The details.

Fred Ritchin (associate professor of photography and communications at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a new media consultant to news and photo organizations) reviews the exhibition “Intersections Intersected: The Photography of David Goldblatt,” currently on view at New York’s New Museum through October 1. Link. Highlights from the review:

“Intersections Intersected,” an exhibition of David Goldblatt’s photography at the New Museum on the Lower East Side of Manhattan through October 11, 2009. The exhibition is also accompanied by a mini-film festival and a panel of young South Africans.
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