# Fragments of Fietas

- **Brand:** MACK
- **Price:** $55.00
- **Catalog:** mackbooks
- **Retailer:** mackbooks
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## Summary

A paperback photography book titled 'Fragments of Fietas' by David Goldblatt, featuring black and white imagery and a minimalist white cover.

## Description

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 ethnic cleansing wrought by apartheid legislation on its residents and landscape. Moved by the life force of the predominantly Indian community’s families, shopkeepers, and small business owners, Goldblatt attempted ‘to grasp something of their life and what they had built.’  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. Earlier images of storefronts and domestic interiors contrast poignantly with those of their demolition from the late 1970s onwards. Dignified portraits of traders in their stores capture their determined efforts to build a life for their families. Interviews with past and present Fietas residents close the book, recalling the testimonials of Goldblatt’s subjects in The Transported of Kwandebele and Ex-Offenders at the Scene of Crime.  Exemplary of Goldblatt’s empathetic and observational documentary style, these photographs and oral histories establish a generous exchange between photographer and subject. Together these materials preserve narratives of Fietas as a racially diverse community that existed in defiance of apartheid. An 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, completing a compelling reference to a little known community forever changed by the darkest point in South Africa’s history.

## Variants

- **In stock:** 1 of 1

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## Categories

- **Categories:** Photography Books

## Additional Attributes

- **ISBN:** 978-1-917651-08-0
- **tags:** David Goldblatt, transfer
- **pages:** 224 pages
- **author:** David Goldblatt
- **format:** Paperback with flaps
- **vendor:** MACK
- **binding:** Paperback with flaps
- **publisher:** MACK
- **dimensions:** 24 x 28 cm
- **page count:** 224 pages
- **product type:** Photography Books
- **listed prices:** €40 £35 US$55 AU$85
- **shopify handle:** fragments-of-fietas-david-goldblatt
- **publication date:** September 2025
- **dimensions and pages:** 24 x 28 cm, 224 pages

## Enrichment

- **Type:** photography book
- **Type Synonyms:** art book, monograph
- **Tags:** paperback, black and white photography, textbook style
- **Styles:** minimalist
- **Category Path:** Media > Books > Print Books
- **Book cover type:** Paperback
- **Genre:** Arts, Documentary, History, Society & culture
- **Language version:** ENG- English
- **Target audience:** Adults
- **Canonical Brand:** MACK

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