Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation
Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse
Lift Portrait, 24, Ponte City, Johannesburg
Auction Closed
October 25, 04:33 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse
Lift Portrait, 24, Ponte City, Johannesburg
chromogenic print, mounted, framed, 2008; accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity, signed by the artists
image: 50½ by 40½ in. (128.3 by 102.9 cm.)
frame: 61½ by 50½ in. (156.2 by 128.3 cm.)
Ivan Vladislavic, ed., Ponte City: Mikhael Subotzky / Patrick Waterhouse (Göttingen, 2014). unpaginated
Looking Back: Ten Years at Pier 24 Photography (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), p. 113
Ponte City is a skyscraper in the Berea suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Originally intended as luxury condos it fell into disrepair. After years of neglect, developers evicted half of the building’s tenants.
Photographers Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse embarked on an ambitious project to document the building, including operating improvised photography studios in the building’s elevators.