• FRAGMENTS OF FIETAS, edited by Brenda Goldblatt, with an essay by Ashwin Desai, map illustrations by Simon Parkin

FRAGMENTS OF FIETAS, edited by Brenda Goldblatt, with an essay by Ashwin Desai, map illustrations by Simon Parkin

: Goldblatt (D.) photo.

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223pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., maps, paperback, MACK, (London), 2025

ISBN: 9781917651080

 

Between 1948 and 2016, David Goldblatt returned periodically to Fietas, a suburb west of Johannesburg’s city centre, to photograph the impact of punitive segregation and forced removals wrought by apartheid legislation on its residents and landscape. The resulting photographs, collected and published here for the first time, form a vivid social document of Fietas before, during, and after its destruction under the Group Areas Act, together with accounts by past and present residents. 

The accompanying essay by Professor Ashwin Desai places Fietas within the wider historical context of Indian South Africans and racist ideology before and after the advent of apartheid.

South African photographer David Goldblatt's books include South Africa: The Structure of Things Then; In Boksburg; On the Mines and Lifetimes: Under Apartheid (both with Nadine Gordimer); The Transported of KwaNdebele: A South African odyssey (with Brenda Goldblatt and Phillip van Niekerk) and Some Afrikaners Revisited. He died in June 2018.