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Ndebele Broom Seller, Soweto, South Africa by David Goldblatt — VisualArtsDB

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Ndebele Broom Seller, Soweto, South Africa

David Goldblatt

1972

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 9 5/8 × 9 7/8" (24.5 × 25.2 cm)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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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

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

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

House in 'Authentic Cape Dutch' Style, Agatha, Tzaneen, Transvaal

House in 'Authentic Cape Dutch' Style, Agatha, Tzaneen, Transvaal

David Goldblatt, 1989

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

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

David Goldblatt, 1984

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

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

Young Man at Home, White City, Jabavu

Young Man at Home, White City, Jabavu

David Goldblatt, 1972

Untitled (mountain landscape)

Untitled (mountain landscape)

David Goldblatt, 2010

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

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