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.)
Condition Report
Provenance
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, 2012
Literature
About Face (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2014), p. 117 (this print)
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
Exhibited
San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, About Face, May 2012 – April 2013
Catalogue Note
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.