David Goldblatt – In Boksburg (Signed)

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Product Title:

David Goldblatt – In Boksburg (Signed, 1982 Gallery Press Edition)

Product Description:

First published in 1982 by The Gallery Press, In Boksburg stands as one of the earliest and most significant South African photobooks. In this pivotal work, David Goldblatt turns his precise and unflinching gaze toward Boksburg – a small, white, middle-class town on the East Rand near Johannesburg.

Between 1979 and 1980, Goldblatt photographed the “wholly uneventful flow of commonplace, orderly life” – the streets, shops, homes, churches and clubs of a community living within the structures of apartheid. His photographs, subtle yet deeply political, capture the contradictions of a society built on racial separation while maintaining an appearance of normalcy.

Goldblatt’s essay, published alongside the photographs, reflects on how the growth of chain stores, property developers and suburban sprawl led to the homogenisation of South African towns – each one increasingly alike in architecture, commerce and social values. Yet in this apparent sameness, his images reveal profound differences, exposing the invisible scaffolding of whiteness and exclusion that defined daily life during apartheid.

This original 1982 Gallery Press edition is a highly collectible piece of South African photographic history, presented in immaculate, sealed condition and signed by David Goldblatt on the title page. A rare opportunity for collectors and enthusiasts of documentary photography and South African visual history.

Details:

• Publisher: The Gallery Press, Cape Town (1982)

• Signed by David Goldblatt

• 72 pages in total

• Perfect, sealed condition

• Hardcover edition

About the Artist:
David Goldblatt (1930–2018) was one of South Africa’s most influential photographers. His work critically examined the moral and social landscape of apartheid, documenting the ordinary and the overlooked to reveal deep systemic truths. In 1989 he founded the Market Photography Workshop in Johannesburg and, in 1998, became the first South African photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.