SOME AFRIKANERS PHOTOGRAPHED - LIMITED SIGNED EDITION.

First Edition limited to a 1000 numbered copies signed by David Goldblatt of which this is number 273

168pp., with 80 full page photographic reproductions with captions on the facing pages.

Very Good, with very mild off-setting to endpapers, as well as pp 34 and 36, tiny spot at bottom leading corner of pp 150 and verso, very light and minor foxing to edges off text-block. This is otherwise a very well preserved copy of this sought after gem.

Black cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine. 245x330mm Tall in size.

“So I came to photograph Afrikaners, moving slowly beyond the district and people I knew. For a while, I thought of photographing the Afrikaner People. It took time to understand that for me such a project would be grossly pretentious and probably impossible to achieve in any meaningful sense – in any case it is not what I wanted. I did not have the encyclopedic vision that might enable me to achieve an acceptably ‘balanced’ picture of a people. I needed to grasp something of what a man is and is becoming in all the particularity of himself and his bricks and bit of earth and of this place and to contain all this in a photograph. To do this, and to discover the shapes and shades of his loves and fears and of my own, would be enough.” -David Goldblatt