On the Mines
by David Goldblatt
Photographs: David Goldblatt
Text: David Goldblatt, Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Steidl Verlag
180 pages
Pictures: 80 tritone plates
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9783869304915
Price: 65 €
Comments: 27.6 cm x 27.6 cm; clothbound hardcover with foil embossing
On the Mines is a re-designed and expanded version of David Goldblatt’s influential book of 1973. 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. The new version of the book maintains the original three chapters “The Witwatersrand: a Time and Tailings”, “Shaftsinking” and “Mining Men”, but is otherwise completely updated, in Goldblatt’s words, “to expand the view but not to alter the sense of things”. There are thirty-one new mostly unpublished photos including colour images, eleven deleted images, a postscript by Gordimer to her essay, as well as a text by Goldblatt reflecting on his childhood and the 1973 book.
On the Mines is the first of many titles in an ambitious collaboration between the photographer and Steidl that will publish Goldblatt’s life work in a series of re-prints and new books.
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On the Mines
by David Goldblatt
Photographs: David Goldblatt
Text: David Goldblatt, Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Steidl Verlag
180 pages
Pictures: 80 tritone plates
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9783869304915
Price: 65 €
Comments: 27.6 cm x 27.6 cm; clothbound hardcover with foil embossing
On the Mines is a re-designed and expanded version of David Goldblatt’s influential book of 1973. 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.
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