Regarding Intersections

The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a universal and cosmopolitan humanity. Seventeen days of sporting competition watched and followed on every continent and in every country on the planet. Simply, the greatest show on earth. Yet when the modern games were inaugurated in Athens in 1896, the founders thought them a "display of manly virtue", an athletic celebration of the kind of amateur gentleman that would rule the world. How was such a ritual invented? Why did it prosper and how has it been so utterly transformed?In The Games, David Goldblatt - winner of the 2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award - takes on a breathtakingly ambitious search for the answers and brilliantly unravels the complex strands of this history. Beginning with the Olympics as a sporting side show at the great Worlds Fairs of the Belle Epoque and its transformation into a global media spectacular, care of Hollywood and the Nazi party, The Games shows how sport and the Olympics had been a battlefield during the Cold War, a defining moment for social and economic change in host cities and countries, and a theatre of resistance for women and athletes of colour once excluded from the show. Illuminated with dazzling vignettes from over a century of Olympic competition - this stunningly researched history captures the excitement of sporting brilliance and the kaleidoscopic experience of the Games. It shows us how this sporting spectacle has come to reflect the world we hope to inhabit and the one we actually live in.

The Games - A Global History of the Olympics

Ex offenders at the scene of crime

Accompagné d'une sélection inédite de photographies, le dialogue au centre de cet ouvrage est directement tiré des enregistrements d'une conversation itinérante avec David Goldblatt trois mois avant sa mort en juin 2018. Dans cette conversation avec l'écrivaine Alexandra Dodd, Goldblatt partage son point de vue sur la terre et le paysage, l'attrait dangereux de la répétition en portrait, Johannesburg, le solipsisme de la vie de photographe, sa persistance, son intolérance viscérale à la censure, son intérêt constant pour ses structures et son observation des cas de domination sous démocratie.

David goldblatt the last interview

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Global Transformations - Politics, Economics and Culture

Structures of dominion and democracy

On the mines

Le seul guide annuel vraiment complet sur le sport universel et la saison 2002-03 dans le monde entier : les résultats, les statistiques, les faits, les anecdotes, les grands dossiers, etc.

Regarding Intersections

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