David Goldblatt: In Boksburg: Books on Books No. 7

by Jeffrey Ladd and Joanna Lehan

David Goldblatt's In Boksburg stands as one of the most important observations of a middle-class white community in South Africa during the apartheid years. Published in 1982, it presents an accumulation of everyday details from the community of Boksburg through which a larger portrait is revealed of white societal values within a racially divided state. "Blacks are not of this town," writes Goldblatt. "They serve it, trade with it, receive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935004123
• ISBN13: 9781935004127
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Errata Editions
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.2" x 9.7"