On the Mines
by David Goldblatt and Nadine Gordimer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Cape Town, South Africa
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About This Item
C.Struik (Pty) Ltd, 1973. This book is divided into three parts. The Witwatersrand: a time and tailings, Shaftsinking and Mining Men. The first part is a collection of Goldblatt's photographs accompanied by an essay by Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer. The second, photographs by Goldblatt with his description of the process of Shaftsinking. The third part is Goldblatt's images of men on the mines."I was drawn to photograph the mines not by any metaphor in which they might be seen but by their overwhelming presence in the life and landscape into which I grew. Photography offered both the justification and the medium for greatly extending experience and understandings begun in childhood." From his interview with Jeffery Ladd - Time Magazine. Very good condition in a very good dust jacket. The black jacket show some signs of edgewear. Front endpaper professionally replaced. First edition Very good Very good Hardcover
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quagga Books (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 306132
- Title
- On the Mines
- Author
- David Goldblatt and Nadine Gordimer
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- C.Struik (Pty) Ltd
- Date Published
- 1973
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography; Art & Architecture (South African);
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About the Seller
Quagga Books
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Cape Town
About Quagga Books
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