On the Mines Photobook Conversations

Photobook Conversations

ISBN 978-2-9564071-8-8

even as it seems to be dematerializing: fleeting images that question the very nature of photography as record

a price for faithfulness to the nature of the medium

undeveloped areas

On the Mines Photobook ConversationsOn the Mines is a re designed and expanded version of David Goldblatts influential book of 1973. 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 sixties 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