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In Boksburg / David Goldblatt.
Van Pelt Library DT2405.B65 G65 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldblatt, David.
- Series:
- Books on books (New York, N.Y.) ; 7.
- South African Photographic Gallery (Series) ; 1.
- [Books on books series ; 7]
- The South African Photographic Gallery ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social conditions.
- Race relations.
- Boksburg (South Africa)--Pictorial works.
- Boksburg (South Africa).
- South Africa--Race relations--Pictorial works.
- South Africa.
- South Africa--Social conditions--1961-1994--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Errata Editions, 2010.
- Summary:
- David Goldblatt's In Boksburg stands as one of the most important observations of a middle-class white community in South Africa during the apartheid years. Published in 1982, it presents an accumulation of everyday details from the community of Boksburg through which a larger portrait is revealed of white societal values within a racially divided state. "Blacks are not of this town," writes Goldblatt. "They serve it, trade with it, receive charity from it and are ruled, rewarded and punished by its precepts. Some, on occasion, are its privileged guests. But all who go there, do so by permit or invitation, never by right." This facsimile reproduces all 71 black-and-white photographs as well as Goldblatt's eloquent introduction to the work, and noted writer and editor, Joanna Lehan, contributes a contemporary essay written for this volume. Errata Editions' Books on Books series is an ongoing publishing project dedicated to making rare and out-of-print photography books accessible to students and photobook enthusiasts. These are not reprints or facsimiles but complete studies of the original books. Each volume in the series presents the entire content, page for page, of an original master bookwork which, up until now, has been too rare or expensive for most to experience. Through a mix of classic and contemporary titles, this series spans the breadth of photographic practice as it has appeared on the printed page and allows further study of the creation and meanings of these great works of art. Each volume in the series contains illustrations of every page in the original photobook, a new essay by an established writer on photography, production notes about the creation of the original edition and biographical and bibliographical information about each artist.
- Notes:
- Photographs originally published in Cape Town by The Gallery Press in 1982 in the series The South African Photographic Gallery.
- Title, author and series statement from cover ; imprint and edition statement from colophon.
- Includes original t.p.
- Includes essay by David Goldblatt, "In Boksburg."
- Includes essay by Joanna Lehan, On Boksburg, Baasskap and poetry.
- Includes essay by Jeffrey Ladd, Making In Boksburg.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781935004127
- 1935004123
- OCLC:
- 540688640
- Publisher Number:
- 99969012357
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