Some Afrikaners Photographed (1975) [by David Goldblatt] is pure visual music. The book’s insightful, nonjudgmental images etched into my retina, narrating a people that were part of the continent and yet insisted on apartheid. The first photo says it all: a wall built by two slaves two hundred years ago, a performative sculpture of stones, painfully put together in a spasm of subjection: blues that echo from the printed page.
