David Goldblatt

Structures of Dominion and Democracy

David Goldblatt, Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska, Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska , David Goldblatt (Open University)

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English

Steidl Verlag
01 October 2018

Individual photographers

"This book is a selective retrospective of David Goldblatt, a key figure

in twentieth-century and contemporary photography. Starting from

his earliest photographic searchings, it shows the foundations of

Goldblatt's critical passion for photography, his social sensitivity and

political consciousness. Also to see are his most recent photographs,

always in tight relation to the changing situation in South Africa, his

native country.

Structures of Dominion and Democracy

assembles

many of Goldblatt's influential series including ""On the Mines,"" ""Some

Afrikaners"" and ""Structures"" with some less well-known including

""Kas Maine,"" and reconstructs the history of their first publication in

the international press. Reproducing original handmade dummies and

working plates, the process of bookmaking and other diverse appli - cations of these often iconic images are laid bare. In addition to texts

by the photographer, essays by Ivor Powell and Karolina Ziebinska- Lewandowska explore Goldblatt's work in the context of South African

political and cultural history, as well as his contribution to the wider

history of photography.

'David Goldblatt does not snatch on the world with a camera. He

seeks to strip away preconceptions of what he is seeing before he

goes into it still further with his chosen instrument - the photographic

image. The ""essential thing"" in Goldblatt's photographs is never a

piece of visual shorthand for a life; it is informed by this desire for a

knowledge and understanding for the entire context of that life to be

conveyed, in which that detail above all others has meaning.' -Nadine Gordimer"

By: David Goldblatt
Text by: Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska, David Goldblatt (Open University), Ivor Powell
Edited by: Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska
Imprint: Steidl Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Weight: 2.600kg
ISBN: 9783958293915
ISBN 10: 3958293913
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 October 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion and Democracy

"His new book, Structures of Dominion and Democracy (Steidl) begins in 1949 and continues through 2016, taking us across a sweeping arc of history that is sensitive to the ways in which apartheid penetrated every aspect of life for men, women, and children, both black and white.--Sara Rosen ""Huck"""