Michael Stevenson Contemporary is holding an exhibition of David Goldblatt's works from 1 October to 25 October 2003. Entitled Particulars & Rural South Africa , the exhibition coincides with the launch his new book Particulars with solo shows in Cape Town and Johannesburg in October. The exhibition will comprise the 26 black-and-white 16 x 20" images from the book as well as a selection of recent colour photographs. Goldblatt has been working on the Particular series for many years, and in this publication he brings together photographs of South Africa people illustrating how a small detail of a body, clothing, hair or skin can lead a viewer to make judgments about class and colour, and time and place. The book will be published in an edition of 100 collectors' copies and 400 ordinary copies. The colour photographs will be images Goldblatt has recently taken in the Northern Cape and Northern Province. They are digitally printed in a format (approximately 1.2 x 1.6m) larger than any previous work. A theme running through the images is the damage wrought to the land and people by asbestos mining in these regions. The mining concerns have departed, but the scars of the decades of mining this lethal material remain, and are profound and widespread. Born in Randfontein, South Africa, in 1930, Goldblatt has been photographing the changing circumstances of South Africa over the past five decades. He work has been widely published and acclaimed, and honours include a retrospective exhibition of his work, David Goldblatt Fifty-One Years which has so far been seen in New York, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Lisbon, Oxford, Munich and comes to Cape Town and Johannesburg next year. His photographic essay South Africa: the Structure of Things Then was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1998; and excerpts from his recent series of colour photographs of Johannesburg were exhibited at Documenta 11 in Germany in 2002.