Unpaginated. Black boards with white titles to top board and spine, with dust jacket mirroring this design. Half title page signed by the photographer.
Dust jacket: Good, with scuffs, especially to the back panel and corners, but wholly in tact. discolouration to the verso at the foot of the spine.
Binding: internally tight, crisp and very good indeed. Top corner and fore-edge very lighlty bumped.
In Boksburg was published in 1982 as one of the earlier photobooks made in South Africa. David Goldblatt, himself from a white background and a critical observer of the dynamics inherent in the racist set-up of his native country, had become interested in capturing the “wholly uneventful flow of commonplace, orderly life” of the white population around him. Boksburg, a legally white-only town on the eastern periphery of Johannesburg which was heavily dependent on black labor, seemed to fit best his purposes, and between 1979 and 1980 he recorded everyday scenes in the streets, shops, clubs, churches, the municipality, homes, gardens and cemetery, choosing a fly-on-the-wall approach. Despite its nuanced complexity, the essay was rejected by Optima magazine which had commissioned it.
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- Binding Condition: Very Good
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