On the Mines

E-051: C. Struik. Very Good. 1973. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. C. Struik (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town, South Africa. 1973. Illustrated with 56 b/w photographs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (scuffing present to the top edge of the rear panel of the DJ, light scuffing present to the heel of the DJ spine). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. On the Mines is David Goldblatt's influential 1973 publication. Goldblatt grew up in the South African town of Randfontein, which was shaped by the social culture and financial success of the gold mines surrounding it. When these mines started to fail in the mid-1960s Goldblatt began taking photos of them, which form the basis of On the Mines. The book features an essay on the human and political dimensions of mining in South Africa by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, whose writing has long influenced Goldblatt with three original chapters--The Witwatersrand: a Time and Tailings, Shaftsinking and Mining Men-" EB; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches .