Fietas Fractured

David Goldblatt
9783958293250 / 3958293255       
Fietas Fractured

Fietas Fractured

David Goldblatt
9783958293250 / 3958293255       
Publisher Steidl
Edition Hardcover , 256 pages
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This book presents photos by David Goldblatt (born 1930) of Fietas in Johannesburg, taken between 1952 and 2016, with an emphasis on his 1976–77 images of the suburb’s last Indian residents before they were forcibly removed under apartheid.Known affectionately by its inhabitants as Fietas, though officially called Pageview, this was one of the city’s few “nonracial” suburbs, where Malay, African, Chinese, Indian and a few white people lived. Composed of narrow streets and small houses, here different races and religions formed a strong, safe community where children played in the streets. There were two mosques, Hindu, Tamil and Muslim schools, cricket, soccer and bridge clubs, and shops. In 1948 the National Party came to power and made the clearance of all “nonwhite” inhabitants of Pageview an immediate objective: some 5,000 Africans and other people of color were evicted or “persuaded” to leave.

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Book title Fietas Fractured
Photographer David Goldblatt
ISBN 10 3958293255        / 3-95829-325-5       
ISBN 13 9783958293250 / 978-3-95829-325-0
Publisher Steidl
Book format Hardcover
Book format details clothbound
Language English
Pages 256 pages
Dimensions 29 x 33 cm / 14.5 x 13 inches

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