{"product_id":"david-goldblatt-structures-of-dominion-and-democracy","title":"David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion and Democracy","description":"This 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. Also to see are his most recent photographs,  always in tight relation to the changing situation in South Africa, his  native country.  Structures of Dominion and Democracy  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. Reproducing original handmade dummies and  working plates, the process of bookmaking and other diverse appli - cations 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'David Goldblatt 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","brand":"Steidl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42664684159012,"sku":"9783958293915","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9783958293915.jpg?v=1777361129","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/david-goldblatt-structures-of-dominion-and-democracy","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}