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Young Man with a Pass, Soweto, South Africa

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Young Man with a Pass, Soweto, South Africa

David Goldblatt

1972

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 9 13/16 × 9 7/8" (24.9 × 25.1 cm)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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Untitled (mountain landscape)

Untitled (mountain landscape)

David Goldblatt, 2010

A Transkei family in their shelter, KTC squatter camp. The framework was made of strips of Port Jackson bush. For privacy black plastic sheets were used around the lower part of the shelter. For light, translucent plastic was used on the dome. Cape Town, September 1984

A Transkei family in their shelter, KTC squatter camp. The framework was made of strips of Port Jackson bush. For privacy black plastic sheets were used around the lower part of the shelter. For light, translucent plastic was used on the dome. Cape Town, September 1984

David Goldblatt, 1984

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

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"

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"

David Goldblatt, 1983

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

Senior Township Superintendent, J.J. Oosthuizen, Senaoane

Senior Township Superintendent, J.J. Oosthuizen, Senaoane

David Goldblatt, 1973

Dutch Reformed Church, Quellerina, Johannesburg, Gauteng (Transvaal)

Dutch Reformed Church, Quellerina, Johannesburg, Gauteng (Transvaal)

David Goldblatt, 1986

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

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

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

David Goldblatt, 1980

Street traders and the colonnade of the Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication, Kliptown, Soweto, 7 February 2014

Street traders and the colonnade of the Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication, Kliptown, Soweto, 7 February 2014

David Goldblatt, 2014

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

Young Man at Home, White City, Jabavu

Young Man at Home, White City, Jabavu

David Goldblatt, 1972

Young Man with a Pass, Soweto, South Africa by David Goldblatt — VisualArtsDB