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Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg by David Goldblatt — VisualArtsDB

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Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg

David Goldblatt

1976

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 11 × 13 11/16" (28 × 34.8 cm)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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

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

David Goldblatt, 1986

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

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

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

3:30 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

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

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

Remnant of a wild almond hedge planted in 1660 to prevent livestock from being taken out of the European settlement in South Africa by the indigenous Khoe, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, 16 May 1993

Remnant of a wild almond hedge planted in 1660 to prevent livestock from being taken out of the European settlement in South Africa by the indigenous Khoe, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, 16 May 1993

David Goldblatt, 1993

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

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

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

David Goldblatt, 1983

Saturday afternoon in Sunward park

Saturday afternoon in Sunward park

David Goldblatt, 1979

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