On the Mines no matter the barriers

no matter the barriers

greed and political power

ISBN 978-3-96999-358-3

plunging and uplifting with the changes of the times

and the images that comprise the artist’s works that different images taken at the point of visual transformation and dialectical form between the calm and the energetic are shown

On the Mines no matter the barriersOn 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