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Couple in their House, Soweto, South Africa by David Goldblatt — VisualArtsDB

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Couple in their House, Soweto, South Africa

David Goldblatt

1972

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 9 11/16 × 9 3/4" (24.7 × 24.8 cm)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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

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

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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

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