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David Goldblatt (1930-2019)
Goldblatt, D. ON THE MINES C. Struik, Cape Town, 1973 hardcover with dust jacket, signed by David Goldblatt and Nadine Gordimer
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 There are thirty-one new mostly unpublished photos including colour images, eleven deleted images, a postscript by Gordimer to her essay, as well as a text by Goldblatt reflecting on his childhood and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.
DAVID GOLDBLATT (AFRIQUE DU SUD, NÉ EN 1930)
Ouvrage « Particulars », Goodman Gallery Editions, Johannesburg, 2003, numéroté 45/100.
Ouvrage accompagné d'un tirage en noir et blanc au format H_24 cm L_24 cm, « Woman collecting shellfish, Port Saint Jihns, Transkei, 1975 »,
reproduit p.5 de l'ouvrage.
names include David Hurn, Paddy Summerfield, John Webb, Mark Edwards, Euan Duff, E.O. Hoppe, Bob Mazzer, Peter Turner, Jean Straker, John French, John Goldblatt, many with signatures or credits to verso, a few mounted, various sizes - Quantity (approx. 35)
GOLDBLATT, David. Particulars. Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery Editions, 2003. 4° (370 x 350mm). 27 black and white photographs. Original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in blind, original matching slipcase (negligible soiling), gelatin silver print laid-in, signed and numbered ('11/25') in pencil on the verso, in the original card sleeve.
FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, 1 OF 100 COPIES WITH AN ORIGINAL PRINT SIGNED BY GOLDBLATT, 'Woman collecting shellfish'. Copy number 72 of 100. Auer, p.785, The Photobook, vol. II, pp.114-5.
Goldblatt, D. PARTICULARS Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, 2003 first edition col. & b/w illustrations, excellent large 4to hardcover, black cloth-bound with title debossed on front cover and spine in dustjacket, excellent signed by the author and numbered 35/100 in pencil, photographs by David Goldblatt, edited by Mary Reynolds and text by Ingrid de Kok. Printed by Hansa Reproprint on 250 gsm acid free, dioxinfree Job Parilux paper manufactured from Chlorine free pulp, the binding was hand-sewn, with additional reprint signed, dated 1975 and edition 10/20
Arnold, Eve and others Eleven works Eleven works. With numerous illustrations after photographs by Eve Arnold, Dmitri Kessel, David Goldblatt, George Forss, Mitch Epstein, Ruth Orkin and four other photographers. Between 18 to 31,5 x 21,5 to 30 cm. Original bindings, most of them with cloth and dust jackets, the others with wrappers. (1973 - 1987). China. Eve Arnold. 1980. (with some signs of wear). - In America. Eve Arnold. 1983. (First edition. Very well preserved). - On assignment: Dmitri Kessel. Life Photographer. Photographs and text by Dmitri Kessel. Foreword by Edward K. Thompson. 1985. - On the Mines. David Goldblatt. Nadine Gordimer. 1973. - New York/ New York. Masterworks of a Street Peddler. George Forss. Presented by David Douglas Duncan. 1984. - In Pursuit of India. Photographs by Mitch Epstein. Introduction by Anita Desai. 1987. - A World through my Window. Photographs by Ruth Orkin. 1978. (First edition). - And four others. - All in excellent condition.
Lifetimes under Apartheid
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1968, signed by the authors, illustrations, cloth, dustjacket
Gordimer, Nadine and Goldblatt, David
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1968, signed by the authors, illustrations, cloth, dustjacket
Dronsfield (John) Fifty African Improvisations, one of 11 copies reserved for David Schrire and Denis Bullough, engraved plates, original ring-bound boards, Cape Town, Janda Press, 1956 õ Goldblatt David) and Nadine Gordimer. On The Mines, original cloth, dust-jacket Cape Town, 1973, and 3 others, South Africa, 4to (5).
David Goldblatt (b. 1930) Particulars, 2003 Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery Editions, 2003, first edition. Text by Ingrid de Kok. 60 pages with 27 black and white plates. Folio wih black cloth overboards with blindstamp on cover and spine; signed and numbered 74/100 in pencil on the half-title page. This work is one of 25, from a deluxe limited edition of 100 plus 20 artist proofs from the limited edition of 500, which is accompanied by a gelatin silver print: Woman sun-bathing, 1975; signed, dated, annotated and numbered 18/25 in pencil on the verso; contained in a presentation folder. All contained in a black cloth slipcase. Slipcase: 15 1/4 x 14 1/4 x 1 in. (38.7 x 36.2 x 2.5 cm.); image: 7 1/8 x 6 1/4 in. (18.1 x 15.9 cm.) Literature: Parr and Badger, The Photobook: A History, volume II, pp. 114-115
Goldblatt, D David Goldblatt: Some Afrikaners Photographed First Edition: Cape Town: Murray Crawford and C. Struik, 1975, photographs by David Goldblatt, 4to, hardback, dustjacket, limited edition: No. 861 of 1000 copies, signed and dated November 2010 by the artist on the frontis page and signed by the artist and numberd 861 on the last page, dustjacket worn with tears and tape residue, discoloured and faded with abrasions, initial pages with slight staining
Goldblatt, David (South African 1930)
Mrs Miriam Mazibuko watering her garden, Extension 8, Far East Alexandra
Township, Johannesburg. 12 September 2006
Silver gelatine on fibre based paper, signed, 2006/12/09, edition 2/10
81 x 104cm
Documentary photography in South Africa is inextricably linked to the name David Goldblatt. Having
photographed for about 60 years, and still actively producing new work, Goldblatt has created a prolific
archive of images that elucidates the complex history of the country in a way that intimately communicates
its particular struggles. More recently, Goldblatt has photographed the current socio-political mileu,
exposing contemporary strife, anxiety and the aftermath of apartheid. Mrs Miriam Mazibuko watering her
garden, Extension 8, Far East Alexandra Township, Johannesburg depicts a woman outside her newly
constructed RDP (Reconstruction and Development Programme) house which only has one room. The
photograph tells the story of Mrs Mazibuko, whose four children live with their grandparents because
of the lack of space in her government-awarded house. Goldblatt's composition of this photograph is
almost painterly. In the far distance the headstones form one band of tiny rectangular shapes. In front
of this a band of informal housing is cramped together in such a way that only the haphazard roofs are
visible - a larger set of forms. The focal point of the photograph is a single rectangle - Mrs Mazibuko's
house - and the repetition of similar shapes, which increase, as they get closer to the foreground,
creates a sense that they are progressive: people moving out of one box and into another until their final
resting place in a box beneath the ground.