Bathroom attached to the office of the General Manager with 'dirty' bath and 'clean' bath for his use after he had been underground. New Kleinfontein Gold Mine, Benoni, May 1967 (4_504)

David Goldblatt
Bathroom attached to the office of the General Manager with 'dirty' bath and 'clean' bath for his use after he had been underground. New Kleinfontein Gold Mine, Benoni, May 1967 (4_504), 1967
Silver gelatin photograph on fibre-based paper
F:64.5 x 54cm P:56 x 45cm

Goldblatt spent years taking photographs of Johannesburg – of the white areas of the city centre, the comfortable suburbs and the townships on the outskirts of the city. He was engaged in the conditions of society and the values by which people lived, rather than the climactic outcomes of those conditions. He intended to discover and probe these values through the medium of photography. “In the course of [my] work, I realized that I was deeply involved in this country, in its physical presence, its people and the terrible system in which we had all become embroiled. That involvement and understanding was something that I could probably never have anywhere else.” — David Goldblatt