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  • Stevedore, Durban

    David Goldblatt

    1953

    Artwork

  • Photographer and client, Braamfontein. Johannesburg

    David Goldblatt

    1955

    Artwork

  • A plot-holder with the daughter of his servant, Wheatlands, Randfontein

    David Goldblatt

    1962

    Artwork

  • A plot-holder, his wife and their eldest son at lunch, Wheatlands, Randfontein

    David Goldblatt

    1962

    Artwork

  • The commando of National Party stalwarts which escorted prime minister and National Party leader Hendrik Verwoerd and his wife Betsie to the party’s 50th anniversary celebrations at de Wildt, Transvaal, October 1964

    David Goldblatt

    1964

    Artwork

  • Evening exodus on West Street: Blacks going for trains in Soweto, Whites in their cars to the suburbs, Johannesburg, 1964

    David Goldblatt

    1964

    Artwork

  • Cafe de Move-On, Croesus

    David Goldblatt

    1964

    Artwork

  • Picnic at Hartebeespoort Dam on New Year’s Day, Transvaal (North-West Province), 1965

    David Goldblatt

    1965

    Artwork

  • Miners’ bunks in the abandoned Chinese compound, so called because it probably housed indentured Chinese labourers between 1904 and 1910, after which it accommodated black miners. Simmer & Jack Gold Mine, Germiston, July 1965

    David Goldblatt

    1965

    Artwork

  • Farmers at a cattle auction, Vryburg, Cape Province

    David Goldblatt

    1965

    Artwork

  • “Lashing” shovels retrieved from underground. Every grain of sand in the yellow tailings dumps that made the Witwatersrand landscape and every grain of gold that made its wealth, came from a rock off a black man’s shovel underground. Central Salvage Yard, Randfontein Estates, Randfontein, 1966

    David Goldblatt

    1966

    Artwork

  • Homage to Federico Fellini: while in traffic

    David Goldblatt

    1967

    Artwork

  • Policeman in a squad car on Church Square, Pretoria (Tshwane), Transvaal (Gauteng)

    David Goldblatt

    1967

    Artwork

  • The last of the bigger rocks has just been dropped into a kibble. Now, with shovels, the team ‘lashes’ (loads) the small stuff into the kibble, 1969

    David Goldblatt

    1969

    Artwork

  • Margaret Mcingana who later became famous as the singer Margaret Singana, Zola, Soweto

    David Goldblatt

    1970

    Artwork

  • Drum majorette, Cup final, Orlando Stadium, Soweto. 1972

    David Goldblatt

    1972

    Artwork

  • Ephraim Zulu watering his garden, 179 Central Western Jabavu, Soweto, September 1972

    David Goldblatt

    1972

    Artwork

  • Young men with dompas (an identity document that every African had to carry), White City, Jabavu, Soweto, 1972

    David Goldblatt

    1972

    Artwork

  • Bus stop, Derby Road, Lorentzville, Johannesburg. December

    David Goldblatt

    1973

    Artwork

  • Woman Going To The Trading Store Holding Money Under Her Blanket, Flagstaff, Transkei

    David Goldblatt

    1975

    Artwork

  • Woman smoking, Fordsburg, Johannesburg, 1975

    David Goldblatt

    1975

    Artwork

  • In the garden of Felicia and Sydney Kentridge, Houghton, Johannesburg. 1978

    David Goldblatt

    1978

    Artwork

  • Spec housing and children on the veld at Parkrand

    David Goldblatt

    1979

    Artwork

  • Saturday afternoon in Sunward Park, Boksburg, April 1979

    David Goldblatt

    1979

    Artwork

  • On the corner of Commissioner and Eloff Streets

    David Goldblatt

    1979

    Artwork

  • Saturday morning at the corner of Commissioner and Trichardt Streets, Boksburg

    David Goldblatt

    1980

    Artwork

  • At a meeting of the Voortrekkers in the suburb of Whitfield, Boksburg, June 1980

    David Goldblatt

    1979–1980

    Artwork

  • A girl and her mother at home, Boksburg. 22 June 1980

    David Goldblatt

    1980

    Artwork

  • At a meeting of the Worker-Management Liaison Committee of the Colgate-Palmolive company, Boksburg

    David Goldblatt

    1980

    Artwork

  • Methodists meet to find ways of reducing the racial, cultural and class barriers that divide them

    David Goldblatt

    1980

    Artwork

  • Saturday morning at the Hypermarket: Semi-final of the Miss Lovely Legs Competition. 28 June 1980

    David Goldblatt

    1980

    Artwork

  • In a family outfitting store, Boksburg

    David Goldblatt

    1980

    Artwork

  • Hypermarket employee collecting trolleys, Boksburg

    David Goldblatt

    1980

    Artwork

  • Girl in her new tutu on the stoep, 22 June 1980

    David Goldblatt

    1980

    Artwork

  • Dancing-master Ted van Rensburg watches two of his ballroom pupils, swinging to a record of Victor Sylvester and his Orchestra, in the MOTHS’ Hall at the old Court House, Boksburg, 1980

    David Goldblatt

    1980

    Artwork

  • Before the fight: amateur boxing at the Town Hall, Boksburg. 1980

    David Goldblatt

    1980

    Artwork

  • The monument at left celebrates the fifth anniversary of the Republic of South Africa. The one at right is to J G Strijdom, militant protagonist of White supremacy and of an Afrikaner republic, who died in 1958. At rear is the headquarters building of Volkskas (‘The People’s Bank’) founded in 1934 to mobilise Afrikaner capital and to break the monopoly of the ‘English’ banks. Pretoria, 25 April 1982

    David Goldblatt

    1982

    Artwork

  • Sitting next to each other, strangers often become intertwined in sleep

    David Goldblatt

    1983

    Artwork

  • Fifteen-year old Lawrence Matjee after his assault and detention by the Security Police, Khotso House, de Villiers Street, 25 November 1985

    David Goldblatt

    1985

    Artwork

  • Luke Kgatitsoe in his house, bulldozed in February 1984 by the government after the forced removal of the people of Magopa, a black-owned farm, which had been declared a “black spot”, Ventersdorp district, Transvaal, 21 October 1986

    David Goldblatt

    1986

    Artwork

  • A new shack under construction, Lenasia Extension 9, Johannesburg

    David Goldblatt

    1990

    Artwork

  • Domestic workers afternoon off, Sunninghill, Sandton

    David Goldblatt

    1999

    Artwork

  • Freedom Square: here, in the time of apartheid, on 26 June 1955, under harassment by the police, some 3000 people of all races, from all over South Africa, gathered in a Congress of the People and adopted the Freedom Charter, a template for the governance of a non-racial, democratic South Africa. The Charter became the basis of South Africa’s democratic constitution. Kliptown, Soweto, Johannesburg

    David Goldblatt

    2003

    Artwork

  • Boorgat is die Antwoord, De Brak, on the Fraserburg-Sutherland road. Western Cape

    David Goldblatt

    2007

    Artwork

  • At Kevin Kwanele’s Takwaito Barber. Lansdowne Road, Khayelitsha, Cape Town in the time of AIDS

    David Goldblatt

    2007

    Artwork

  • Deserted farm. Holgatsfontein in the Leeukopspan area, between Britstown and Vosburg, Northern Cape

    David Goldblatt

    2008

    Artwork

  • The sports field, Merweville

    David Goldblatt

    2009

    Artwork

  • Zimbabwe refugees given shelter in the Central Methodist Church, Johannesburg

    David Goldblatt

    2009

    Artwork
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