David Goldblatt - Photographs (BIG MONOGRAPH, MINT CONDITION, SHRINK-WRAPPED) - 2006

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David Goldblatt is famous for great photobooks like "In Boksburg" or "Particulars" (Martin Parr, The photobook, vol 2, page 114/115. 802 photo books from the M.+M. Auer collection, page 784).

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Contrasto, Rome. 2006. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover in linen (as issued). 265 x 280 mm. 255 pages. Photos: David Goldblatt. Text in English.

Great photobook - in perfect condition.

David Goldblatt grew up in the South African town of Randfontein, which was shaped by the social culture and financial success of the gold mines surrounding it. When these mines started to fail in the mid-sixties Goldblatt began taking photos of them, which form the basis of On the Mines. The book features an essay on the human and political dimensions of mining in South Africa by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, whose writing has long influenced Goldblatt. A book in three chapters: "The Witwatersrand: a Time and Tailings", "Shaftsinking" and "Mining Men". David Goldblatt is a definitive photographer of his generation, esteemed for his dispassionate depiction of life in South Africa over a period of more than fifty years. Born in Randfontein in 1930, Goldblatt worked in his father`s menswear business until 1963 when he took up photography full time. Goldblatt`s work concerns above all human values and is a unique document of life during and after apartheid. His photographs are held in major international collections, and his solo exhibitions include those at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1998, and the Fondation Henri CartierBresson in Paris in 2011. In 1989 Goldblatt founded the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg to teach visual literacy and photography especially to those disadvantaged by apartheid.

David Goldblatt is famous for great photobooks like "In Boksburg" or "Particulars" (Martin Parr, The photobook, vol 2, page 114/115. 802 photo books from the M.+M. Auer collection, page 784).