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"
Catalogue
- Year
- 1983
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 34.4 × 23.2 cm (13 9/16 × 9 3/16 in.); Paper: 40.3 × 30.3 cm (15 7/8 × 11 15/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- David Goldblatt
Artist
Photography
David Goldblatt HonFRPS was a South African documentary photographer noted for his dedicated portrayal of the South African peoples within the political landscape of the apartheid era. After apartheid's end, he concentrated more on the country's landscapes. Goldblatt's body of work was distinct from that of other anti-apartheid artists in that he photographed issues that went beyond the violent events of apartheid and reflected the conditions that led up to them. His forms of protest have a subtlety that traditional documentary photographs may lack; Goldblatt said, "[M]y dispassion was an attitude in which I tried to avoid easy judgments.... This resulted in a photography that appeared to be disengaged and apolitical, but which was in fact the opposite." Goldblatt also wrote journal articles and books on aesthetics, architecture, and structural analysis.
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5:52 a.m. Going to work in 2012: Buses from former KwaNdebele homeland stream down the road to Pretoria
2012 · Inkjet print
Monument Honouring the 'Contribution of the Horse to South African History,' Erected by the Rapportryers of Bethulie in 1982. Laura Rautenbach was the Sculptor., After the Theft of Bronze Oxen from a Voortrekker Monument in the Town, the Rapportryers Caged the Horse in Steel in 2004. Bethulie, Free State
2005 · Inkjet print
Mother and Child on Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton, Johannesburg
2005 · Inkjet print
House and Garden and the Chris Hani Informal Settlement, Tulbagh, Western Cape
2005 · Inkjet print
A Grave in the New Cemetery, Masilo Township, Theunissen, Free State
2004 · Inkjet print
The Graves of the Cradock Four, Mathew Goniwe, Fort Calata, Sicelo Mhlauli, and Sparrow Mkonto, Anti-Apartheid Activists and Community Leaders, Assassinated by Members of the Security Branch of the South African Police on 27 June 1985., The Confessed Murderers were Refused Amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Thus Far, No-One has been Prosecuted for the Crimes. Craddock, Eastern Cape
2004 · Inkjet print
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- David Goldblatt
- Year
- 1983
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 34.4 × 23.2 cm (13 9/16 × 9 3/16 in.); Paper: 40.3 × 30.3 cm (15 7/8 × 11 15/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1983-105690
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified