{"title":"David Goldblatt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Goldblatt\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling visual journey through South African society, capturing its complexities with a keen, thoughtful eye. His work explores themes of identity, power, and social history, often through stark and evocative photography that invites reflection on cultural and political landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect insightful contemplations on community and change, with images that resonate beyond their immediate subject matter. Goldblatt's books serve as profound meditations on the interplay between structures of authority and everyday life, making them essential for those interested in \u003cem\u003earts and culture\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"david-goldblatt-ex-offenders-by-david-goldblatt-9783958295582","title":"David Goldblatt: Ex Offenders","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe origins of this book lie in David Goldblatt's simple observation that many of his fellow South Africans, regardless of their race and class, are the victims of often violent crime. \"I have asked myself,\" says Goldblatt, \"not least in the fear and fury of holdups with knives and guns, who are you? Are you monsters? Are you 'ordinary' people—if there are such? How did you come to do this? What are your lives?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd so began in 2008 \u003ci\u003eEx Offenders at the Scene of Crime\u003c\/i\u003e, for which Goldblatt photographed criminal offenders and alleged offenders at the place that was probably life-changing for them and their victims: the scene of the crime or arrest. Each portrait is accompanied by the subject's written story in his or her own words, for many a cathartic experience and the first opportunity to recount events without being judged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo ensure the integrity of his undertaking, Goldblatt paid each of his subjects 800 rand for permission to photograph and interview them, and any profit from the project will be donated to the rehabilitation of offenders. \u003ci\u003eEx Offenders\u003c\/i\u003e also features Goldblatt's portraits and interviews of black subjects in West Bromwich, England, made in collaboration with the community arts project Multistory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMost of the people I have photographed are desperate to go straight and to earn a living without crime. In a world of high unemployment and often of cripplingly bad education plus a criminal record, many seem set up for failure. Yet most are full of hope. I see them therefore not as criminals, not as offenders, but as Ex Offenders.\u003c\/i\u003e — David Goldblatt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430469714156,"sku":"9783958295582","price":170.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958295582.jpg?v=1774520721"},{"product_id":"david-goldblatt-some-afrikaners-photographed-by-david-goldblatt-9783958295513","title":"David Goldblatt: Some Afrikaners Photographed","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoldblatt began working on \u003ci\u003eSome Afrikaners Photographed\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1975, in 1963. He had sold his father's clothing store where he worked and become a full-time photographer. The ruling Afrikaner National Party—many of its leaders and members had supported the Nazis in the Second World War—was firming its grip on the country in the face of black resistance. Yet Goldblatt was drawn not to the events of the time but to \"the quiet and commonplace where nothing 'happened' and yet all was contained and immanent.\" Through these photos, he explored his ambivalence towards the Afrikaners he knew from his father's store. Most, he guessed, were National Party voters, yet he experienced them as \"austere, upright, unaffected people of rare generosity of spirit and earthy humour.\" Their potency and contradictions moved and disturbed him; their influence pervaded his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book includes an essay by South African writer Antjie Krog: \"Three kinds of Afrikaners look out at us from these photographs,\" she writes, \"of which the poor Afrikaner is the most haunting—the simple one who, by the sweat of his brow, eats his bread in isolation.\" Art critic Ivor Powell charts the outraged reaction of the Afrikaner media towards photos that showed rural Afrikaners at a time when the Afrikaner elite was trying to establish itself on the international stage, as well as his own reaction to the original book: \"It was all but incandescent with tension and revelation, with a sense of souls being held up to scrutiny, of skins being peeled away.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470382645484,"sku":"9783958295513","price":130.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958295513-david-goldblatt-some-afrikaners-photographed.jpg?v=1775217899"},{"product_id":"david-goldblatt-structures-of-dominion-and-democracy-by-david-goldblatt-9783958293915","title":"David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion and Democracy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlso to see are his most recent photographs, always in tight relation to the changing situation in South Africa, his native country. \u003cem\u003eStructures of Dominion and Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReproducing original handmade dummies and working plates, the process of bookmaking and other diverse applications 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDavid Goldblatt\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596103565548,"sku":"9783958293915","price":133.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958293915-david-goldblatt-structures-of-dominion-and-democracy.jpg?v=1777916689"},{"product_id":"david-goldblatt-the-last-interview-by-david-goldblatt-9783958295599","title":"David Goldblatt: The Last Interview","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccompanied by some of his lesser-known photographs, this distilled dialogue is drawn directly from the recordings of a roving conversation with David Goldblatt three months before his death in June 2018. Goldblatt was born in Randfontein—a mining town on the Witwatersrand gold reef—in 1930, the grandson of Lithuanian-Jewish migrants who settled in South Africa after escaping persecution in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the death of his father in 1962, Goldblatt sold the family clothing business to become a full-time photographer. Describing himself as \"a self-appointed observer and critic of the society into which I was born,\" he photographed the people, landscapes, and structures of South Africa under apartheid and its persistent aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this candid conversation with writer Alexandra Dodd, Goldblatt shares his views about land and landscape, the dangerous lure of repetition in portrait photography, Johannesburg, the solipsism of life as a photographer, staying sharp, his visceral intolerance of censorship, his abiding interest in structures, and his observation of instances of dominion under democracy, among other key themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn March, I flew up to Johannesburg to interview Goldblatt. When he opened the gate, I could see the effects on his body of his fight with illness. He was smaller, more hewn than ever. As we entered the sanctum of his office, he stopped in the doorway, flinched, and said something along the lines of: 'Forgive me if I'm not at my best with this catheter up my cock.' With that, our conversation began...\u003c\/i\u003e Alexandra Dodd\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48010577445100,"sku":"9783958295599","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958295599-david-goldblatt-the-last-interview.jpg?v=1785151701"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/david-goldblatt.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}