SIGNED David Goldblatt On The Mines Original 1973 ED Gold Mine Nadine Gordimer

Description: Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 David Goldblatt On The MinesSIGNED David Goldblatt Original 1973 Hardcover Edition with the Dust Jacket Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 On the Mines. Photographs by David Goldblatt. Text by Nadine Gordimer. C.Struik Ltd. South Africa. Cape Town, 1973. 136 pp. Large quarto. First edition. Original edition. Hardcover. Clothbound in photo illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED by David Goldblatt on the title page. Dated recently on May 3, 2013. 56 black and white reproductions. 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 book consists of three parts: I. The Witwatersrand: A time and tailings. Nadine Gordimer and David Goldblatt explore, in words and photographs, the world of the gold mines among which they grew up. II. Shaftsinking: A series of photographs, with an explanatory text by the photographer, of a Dantesque world, which, because of its inaccessibility and dangers, is seldom seen by outsiders. III. Mining Men: A collection of portraits mostly of those whose life and work forms the substance of the first two parts of the book. Good in a good dust jacket. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ moderate wear and several tears to edges and to the top and bottom of the spine as well as a several creases. Corners and edges scuffed and rubbed. Few taped repairs. Not price clipped. Scattered light foxing to the underside of the dust jacket visible if the jacket is taken off of the book. Scattered light foxing to the fore edges. Grey hardcover has a few soil spots. Scattered light foxing to the edges. Light wear to the corners, edges and to heel of spine. Very good internally. Scattered light foxing to pastedowns, endpapers, half title page and title page. Binding tight. Hinges sound. Great photographs. Clean images. Tanning to page edges. Slight musty smell.

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