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2:40 a.m. Going to work, Mathysloop, KwaNdebele by David Goldblatt — VisualArtsDB

2:40 a.m. Going to work, Mathysloop, KwaNdebele

2:40 a.m. Going to work, Mathysloop, KwaNdebele

David Goldblatt

1983–1984

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 27.1 × 40.9 cm (10 11/16 × 16 1/8 in.); Paper: 27.9 × 42 cm (11 × 16 9/16 in.)
Genre: photograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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8:45 p.m. Going home, Marabastad–Waterval bus: 45 minutes to the terminal

8:45 p.m. Going home, Marabastad–Waterval bus: 45 minutes to the terminal

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5:52 a.m. Going to work in 2012: Buses from former KwaNdebele homeland stream down the road to Pretoria

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3:15 a.m. Going to work: standing room only now, on the Wolwekraal-Marabastad bus, which is licensed to carry 62 sitting and 29 standing passengers

3:15 a.m. Going to work: standing room only now, on the Wolwekraal-Marabastad bus, which is licensed to carry 62 sitting and 29 standing passengers

David Goldblatt, 1983

3:30 a.m. Going to work: The interior of this bus is dimly lit by a small green bulb at one end of the aisle and a small red one at the other. But once it reaches the highway, the headlights of the stream of buses and taxis taking workers to Pretoria are an almost continuous glare through the rear window, from the series "The Transported of KwaNdebele"

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David Goldblatt, 1983

A.m./p.m. travellers from KwaNdebele buying their weekly season tickets at the PUTCO Bus Depot in Pretoria

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David Goldblatt, 1984

4:00 a.m. Going to work, Wolwekraal–Marabastad bus: More than an hour and a half still to go

4:00 a.m. Going to work, Wolwekraal–Marabastad bus: More than an hour and a half still to go

David Goldblatt, 1983