The Lewis Baltz Library - Steidl

Dryden Goodwin
Cast
Often grounded in an experience of the city, Dryden Goodwin wrestles with the continually changing nature of our
contact with the people around us, both the well known – family and friends – and the anonymous, the strangers we
pass on the street. His work marks an intense curiosity, a desire to know, and yet is always alive with ambiguities about
what the act of making work might reveal or obscure. His work suggests the tensions of a society where fear,
suspicion and the ever-present technologies of surveillance increasingly infect the atmosphere of public space.
Published to coincide with a major exhibition of Goodwin’s work at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, this book
brings together new work featured in this exhibition with earlier works to explore the rich dialogues between drawing,
photography and video that define Goodwin’s hybrid practice. Cast extends these enquiries and their various
collisions between drawing and photography and takes further Goodwin’s practice of drawing and scratching onto the
surface of the image, something at once intimate and invasive, a physical intervention that the artist also
characterizes as a way of ‘thinking into the photograph’ and into the stalled nature of photographic time.
Dryden Goodwin was born in 1971 in Bournemouth, England and studied at The Slade School of Fine Art, London,
where he now teaches. He has had numerous solo exhibitions and been a part of group shows including at National
Portrait Gallery, London, New Art Gallery, Walsall, Tate, London, Venice Biennale. Works in public collections include,
The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Arts Council of England, The British Library and Unilever.
Exhibition: The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 26 September to 30 November, 2008
Co-published with Photoworks, Brighton
Dryden Goodwin
Cast
Essays by David Chandler and Stephen Bode
Book design by LOUP
160 pages with 100 color and b/w plates
11.7 x 7.9 in./29.7 x 19.8 cm
Hardcover with dust jacket
US$40.00/£20.00/€30.00
ISBN 978-3-86521-727-1
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