Styles Genres Museums Artists Support

An open visual arts database with 1,000,000+ artworks, 100,000+ artists, and 1,800+ styles spanning centuries of human creativity.

Browse

Styles
Genres
Museums
Artists
Favorites

Popular Styles

Impressionism
Romanticism
Surrealism
Pop Art
Cubism
Realism

Museums

Art Institute of Chicago
MoMA
Rijksmuseum
Cleveland Museum of Art
The MET
Louvre

VisualArtsDB is free and open for everyone.

Support the project

© 2026 VisualArtsDB

Young Men with dompas, White City, Jabavu, Soweto by David Goldblatt — VisualArtsDB

Home
Artwork
Young Men with dompas, White City, Jabavu, Soweto

Young Men with dompas, White City, Jabavu, Soweto

Young Men with dompas, White City, Jabavu, Soweto

David Goldblatt

1972

Dimensions: 22.9 Centimeters (Measurements) × 22.9 Centimeters (Measurements) × 35.4 Centimeters (Measurements) × 27.9 Centimeters (Measurements)
Genre: Artwork
Museum: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US

Styles

Object Record Structure: Whole

More by David Goldblatt

Young Man at Home, White City, Jabavu

Young Man at Home, White City, Jabavu

David Goldblatt, 1972

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

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

David Goldblatt, 1984

Luke Kgatitisoe 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

Luke Kgatitisoe 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

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

A barber under his canopy and with a connection to electricity on Smit Street, Hillbrow, Johannesburg, 19 May 1999

A barber under his canopy and with a connection to electricity on Smit Street, Hillbrow, Johannesburg, 19 May 1999

David Goldblatt, 1999

Senior Township Superintendent, J.J. Oosthuizen, Senaoane

Senior Township Superintendent, J.J. Oosthuizen, Senaoane

David Goldblatt, 1973

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

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

David Goldblatt, 2012

Time Office Clerks and a Miner, City Deep Gold Mine, Johannesburg

Time Office Clerks and a Miner, City Deep Gold Mine, Johannesburg

David Goldblatt, 1966

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

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

David Goldblatt, 1983

A domestic worker’s afternoon off, Sunninghill, Sandton, Johannesburg, 23 July 1999

A domestic worker’s afternoon off, Sunninghill, Sandton, Johannesburg, 23 July 1999

David Goldblatt, 1999

Thirteen kilometers of this coastline were a White Group Area, Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, 9 January 1986

Thirteen kilometers of this coastline were a White Group Area, Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, 9 January 1986

David Goldblatt, 1986

Miriam Mazibuko waters the garden of her RDP house for which she waited eight years. It consists of one room. Her four children live with her in-laws. Extension 8, Far East Alexandra Township

Miriam Mazibuko waters the garden of her RDP house for which she waited eight years. It consists of one room. Her four children live with her in-laws. Extension 8, Far East Alexandra Township

David Goldblatt, 2006