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Goldblatt, David (photographs), Nadine Gordimer and others (text) : David Goldblatt: South Africa

(London: The Photographers' Gallery, 1986)

Published on the occasion of the exhibition David Goldblatt: South Africa at The Photographers' Gallery, London, 11 April to 17 May 1986. 240 x 175 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial card wrappers; pp. 24; photographs with captions, and introductory text; loosely inserted illustrated magazine article on the work of David Goldblatt. Cover very slightly rubbed; staples somewhat rusted. Very good condition. " 'I needed to grasp something of what a man is and is becoming in all the particularity of himself and his bricks and bits of earth and of this place, and to contain all this in a photograph. To to this, and to discover the shapes and shades of his loves and fears and my own, would be enough.' This is David Goldblatt, speaking in 1975. In grasping that 'something of what man is and is becoming,' Goldblatt has become the most important influence on contemporary South African photography; widely imitated, he has thus, both directly and indirectly, influenced our perception of ourselves and our world. ... In praising works of art in South Africa, it is usual to pay lip service if not obeisance to the moral role of the maker in creating 'understanding' of our society. Goldblatt's photographs, in their beauty and honesty, offer the very reverse of the easy panacea of 'understanding'. They cause us to face the ultimate implications of what we understand very well." - Nadine Gordimer.

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