Books
Everyone is Present: Essays on Photography, Memory and Family by Terry Kurgan, published by Fourthwall Books, Johannesburg, 2018.
Wide Angle: Photography as Participatory Practice Terry Kurgan and Tracy Murinik (editors and contributors) eBook, published by Fourthwall Books, Johannesburg, 2015.
Hotel Yeoville Terry Kurgan (editor and contributor) published by Fourthwall Books, Johannesburg, 2013.
Johannesburg Circa Now: Photography and the City, Terry Kurgan and Jo Ractliffe (editors and contributors), published by Terry Kurgan and Jo Ractliffe, Johannesburg 2005.
Book Chapters and Essays
“Object Lessons” by Terry Kurgan, in Critical Arts, South-North Cultural and Media Studies, Special Issue: On Vernacular Photography, Vol 32:1, pages 107–121, 2018.
“Relational Politics: Zen Marie and Terry Kurgan in conversation” in Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts In South Africa, published by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco 2016.
“Acts of Intimate Exposure: The Making of Hotel Yeoville” and “Relational Politics: Zen Marie and Terry Kurgan in conversation” in Wide Angle: Photography as Participatory Practice, e-book, edited by Terry Kurgan and Tracy Murinik, published by Fourthwall Books, Johannesburg 2015.
“Public Art/Private Lives: The Making of Hotel Yeoville” co-authored by Terry Kurgan, Tegan Bristow, and Alexander Opper in Museum Transformations, Annie E. Coombes and Ruth B. Phillips (Eds.) Volume 4: The International Handbooks of Museum Studies, published by Wiley-Blackwell, UK 2015.
“Hotel Yeoville-Reflections on the advantages of working together” co-authored by Terry Kurgan and Alexander Opper, in New Spaces for Negotiating Art and Histories in Africa, Kerstin Pinther, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, Berit Fischer (Eds.), published by LIT Verlag, Berlin 2015.
“Public Art/Private Lives” Special Issue: Cultural Studies Journal, Private Lives and Public Cultures in South Africa, Kerry Bystrom & Sarah Nuttall (Eds.) published by Routledge, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, 2014.
"Checking into Hotel Yeoville: Public Narratives about Feeling Foreign at Home" Alexandra Dodd and Terry Kurgan, Special Issue: Third Text, The Art of Change in South Africa, Nomusa Makhuba & Ruth Simbao (Eds.), Volume 27, Issue 3, 2013.
“Park Pictures” in UNFIXED: Photography and Postcolonial Perspectives in Contemporary Art, Asmara Pelupessy and Sara Blokland (Eds.) published by Jap Sam Books, August 2012, Netherlands.
“Park Pictures: on the work of photography in Johannesburg” Louise Bethlehem and Terry Kurgan, in the book Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present, Lynn Schler, Louise Bethlehem, Galia Sabar (eds.) published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, UK 2011.
“Hotel Yeoville” in On Making: Integrating Approaches to Practice-Led Research in Art and Design. Leora Farber (ed.) published by the Research Centre, Visual Identities in Art and Design, University of Johannesburg, 2010.
“Hotel Yeoville : Pleased to Meet You” Art South Africa, volume 9, Issue 2, December 2010.
“A Dialogue Between Two People Who Never Met”, Terry Kurgan/Aida Sanchez de Serdio, in Home/Away: Art in Social Space, Idensitat – 4, Published by Editorial Tenov, Barcelona, 2008.
"Mothers and Others" Catalogue Essay, Bringing Up Baby: Artist's survey the Reproductive Body, Terry Kurgan (ed.) published by the Bringing Up Baby project, Cape Town 1998.
Secondary Literature
My work has been the subject of a number of scholarly articles and studies. A selection of these is found below.
Collaboration. A Potential History of Photography. Authors: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Leigh Raiford, Laura Wexler. Thames & Hudson, New York, 2024.
“Everyone is Present: Essays on Photography, Memory and Family” Andrew Van der Vlies, Safundi, Volume 21, 2020.
In Pictures: A Family’s Odyssey from Poland to South Africa: Oluremi Onabanjo on Terry Kurgan’s Everyone Is Present in The PhotoBook Review 017, Aperture Publishers, Fall 2019.
“Terry Kurgan, Everyone Is Present: Essays on Photography, Memory and Family” Journal of Visual Culture, Alexandra Dodd, Volume: 18 issue: 2, page(s): 250-252, Sage Publications, 2019.
Affective Images: Post-apartheid documentary perspectives, by Marietta Kesting published by State University of New York Press, 2017. The book includes Hotel Yeoville as a case study.
“Writing Johannesburg” by Naomi Roux, in the journal Thesis Eleven, Sage Publications 2017, Volume 141 (1) pgs. 115 -122.
“Home, Family and Intimacy in recent writings on and from South Africa”, by Carli Coetzee, in the journal Africa, Volume 87, Issue 2, May 2017, pp. 407-418.
“A Cup of Tea and a Marriage Proposal”, by Valentina Rojas Loa. Nine Urban Biotopes: Negotiating the Future of Urban Living, An e-publication, published by urban dialogues E.V., Berlin, 2015. The multi-media e-publication can be downloaded as a tablet-app in Google Play and Apple Store.
Democracy at Home in South Africa: Family Fictions and Transitional Culture, by Kerry Bystrom. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2015.
“Between Politics and Poetics: Terry Kurgan’s Hotel Yeoville” Federico Freschi, in Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, South African Photography: A Special Double Issue, Volume 15, published by Routledge, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. 2014.
“Johannesburg Interiors” by Kerry Bystrom, in a special issue of Cultural Studies Journal, Private Lives and Public Cultures in South Africa, Kerry Bystrom & Sarah Nuttall (eds.) published by Routledge, University of North Carolina, USA, 2013.
Hotel Yeoville, by Gavin Younge, De Arte, Volume 2013, Issue 88, Jan 2013, p. 93 – 95.
Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography, by Tamar Garb, published by Steidl Verlag, to coincide with the eponymous exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2012.
Visual Century: South African Art in Context, Volume 4 1990 – 2007, edited by Thembikosi Goniwe, Mario Pissarra, and Mandisi Majavu, Wits University Press, 2011.
Number Four: The making of Constitution Hill, Segal, L, Martin K and Court S (Eds.) published by Penguin Books, South Africa 2006.
“Material Ghosts: Terry Kurgan’s Park Pictures” by Ruth Rosengarten, in Johannesburg Circa Now: Photography and the City, Terry Kurgan and Jo Ractliffe (Eds.) published by Terry Kurgan and Jo Ractliffe, ISBN 0-620-34177-7, Johannesburg 2005.
“Terry Kurgan” by Tracy Murinik, in 10 years 100 artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Sophie Perryer (ed.), Published by Bell-Roberts Publishing, Cape Town 2004.
Through the Looking Glass: Representations of Self by South African Women Artists, by Brenda Schmahmann, Published by David Krut Publishing, Johannesburg 2004.
Printmaking in a transforming South Africa, by Phillipa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin, published by David Philip Publishers, Cape Town and Johannesburg , 1997.
"Don't mess with Mister In-between: 15 Artistas da Africa Do Sul". Ruth Rosengarten, Exhibition Catalogue Essay. Published by Culturgest, Lisbon 1996.