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Lydia Goldblatt - Inscribed / Signed - Still Here - 2013
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Lydia Goldblatt - Inscribed / Signed - Still Here - 2013

n Still Here, British photographer Lydia Goldblatt offers an intimate and deeply personal exploration of ageing, mortality, love, and the fragile nature of human existence. Photographed over several years, the series centres on her elderly parents, particularly her father, whose physical decline becomes the starting point for a wider reflection on family, memory, and the passage of time. Working primarily in black and white, Goldblatt approaches her subjects with remarkable sensitivity, alternating between tender portraits, domestic interiors, and quiet observations of everyday life. Her photographs reveal the subtle traces of ageing through gestures, textures, light, and the familiar objects that surround her parents. Rather than constructing a conventional family narrative, she creates a fragmented visual meditation in which presence and absence seem inseparable. What makes Still Here particularly affecting is its restraint. Goldblatt avoids sentimentality, allowing the emotional weight of the work to emerge through small details and moments of vulnerability. The resulting images move between documentary observation and poetic abstraction, transforming an intensely private experience into a universal reflection on the relationships that define us. Still Here is a beautifully considered photobook about the inevitability of loss, but also about the enduring significance of being present. A quiet and profoundly human work that demonstrates photography's ability to preserve what time inevitably changes.

No. 107854682

Sold
Lydia Goldblatt - Inscribed / Signed - Still Here - 2013

Lydia Goldblatt - Inscribed / Signed - Still Here - 2013

n Still Here, British photographer Lydia Goldblatt offers an intimate and deeply personal exploration of ageing, mortality, love, and the fragile nature of human existence. Photographed over several years, the series centres on her elderly parents, particularly her father, whose physical decline becomes the starting point for a wider reflection on family, memory, and the passage of time.

Working primarily in black and white, Goldblatt approaches her subjects with remarkable sensitivity, alternating between tender portraits, domestic interiors, and quiet observations of everyday life. Her photographs reveal the subtle traces of ageing through gestures, textures, light, and the familiar objects that surround her parents. Rather than constructing a conventional family narrative, she creates a fragmented visual meditation in which presence and absence seem inseparable.

What makes Still Here particularly affecting is its restraint. Goldblatt avoids sentimentality, allowing the emotional weight of the work to emerge through small details and moments of vulnerability. The resulting images move between documentary observation and poetic abstraction, transforming an intensely private experience into a universal reflection on the relationships that define us.

Still Here is a beautifully considered photobook about the inevitability of loss, but also about the enduring significance of being present. A quiet and profoundly human work that demonstrates photography's ability to preserve what time inevitably changes.

Final bid
€ 4
No reserve price

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