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Guy Tillim: "Avenue Patrice Lumumba", Prestel / Harvard 2008,
ISBN 978 3 7913 4066 1
Aided by a grant Guy Tillim has travelled to the DR Congo, Mozambique, Benin, Madasgascar, Ghana and Angola over the past two years and completed a series on habitation, administration buildings, the social landscape and the architecture of the 60’s in that brief era where a new social vision emerged in those African leaders that governed those states. A large-size book presents the work adequately, opened by a very concise text by Tillim outlining what he does not do (that is: condemn, be nostalgic, judge or criticize) but what he does (that is: embrace). He is the one photographer known to me, next to Goldblatt, whose works focusing on his mother continent put everything at stake he has, who invests more than most, who works on a larger scope, risks more and thus sees more than others. This is a comparably quieter book than it’s predecessors, where buildings, offices, public spaces are sought out in order to find the voices and indices inherent, where administration workers and residents are portrayed in a reserved but commited manner.
09.04.2009
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