Patience Poni visiting her parents Ruth and Jackson Poni, 1510A Emdeni South, Soweto (2_11376)

1972 Platinum print on Arches Platine 310gm Image: 37 x 37 cm

A man and a passing woman, Tladi, Soweto (2_13516)

Nov 1972 Silver gelatin print on fibre-based paper, dibonded Image: 42.5 x 42.5 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

The house-painter and his family, Pretoria Street, Hillbrow. January 1973 (2_14396)

1973 Vintage silver gelatin print Image: 30 x 25 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

A plot-holder with the daughter of his servant, Wheatlands, Randfontein (3_5684)

Sept 1962 Silver gelatin print on fibre-based paper Image: 37 x 24.5 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

In the Nugget Street Park, Doornfontein, Johannesburg. January 1973 (2_14742)

1973 Vintage silver gelatin print Image: 23 x 23 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Young man at home, White City, Jabavu, Soweto. 1 October 1972 (2_12560)

1972 Platinum print on Arches Platine 310gm Image: 37 x 37 cm

Joe Maloney, boiler-house attendant, City Deep Gold Mine, 1966 (2_2846)

1966 Platinum print on Arches Platine 310gm Image: 37 x 37 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Golam Mehmood Mia (left), Mehmood Mia (right), and Iqbal Abdullah on 14th Street, Fietas before the destruction of the businesses under the Group Areas Act. Jan 1976 (2_26567)

1976 Vintage silver gelatin print Image: 26 x 26 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Time office clerks and a miner, City Deep Gold Mine, Johannesburg, 1966 (2_2868)

1966 Platinum print on Arches Platine 310gm Image: 37 x 37 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

A miner waits on the bank to go underground, City Deep Gold Mine, 1966 (2_3041)

1966 Platinum print on Arches Platine 310gm Image: 37 x 37 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Hypermarket employee collecting trolleys, Boksburg (2_28148)

1980 Silver gelatin print on fibre-based paper Image: 40 x 40 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Monthly meeting of the Women's Zionist League, Boksburg (2_29043)

1980 Silver gelatin print on fibre-based paper Image: 49.5 x 50 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

On the corner of Commissioner and Eloff Streets (2_27620)

1979 Silver gelatin print on fibre-based paper Image: 49.5 x 50 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Preparing to serve dinner at the Rugby Dance in the Town Hall, BKG. 5 July 1980 (3_G4553)

5 July 1980 Vintage silver gelatin print Image: 26 x 38 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

At a meeting of the Voortrekkers in the suburb of Whitfield, Boksburg. June 1980 (2_28833)

1980 Vintage silver gelatin print Image: 30 x 30 cm

At a meeting of the Worker-Management Liaison Committee of the Colgate-Palmolive company, Boksburg. 10 July 1980 (2_29772)

1980 Vintage silver gelatin print Image: 23 x 23 cm

Cafe-de-Move-On, Braamfontein, Johannesburg. November 1964 (3_A9648)

1964 Vintage silver gelatin print Image: 34 x 22 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Dutch Reformed Church, completed in 1984, Quellerina, Johannesburg. 3 November 1986 (4_4627)

1986 Silver gelatin print on fibre-based paper, dibonded Image: 84 x 119 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Dutch Reformed Church inaugurated on 31 July 1966, Op-die-Berg, KoueBokkeveld. 23 May 1987(4_5076)

1987 Vintage silver gelatin print Image: 27 x 34 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Cafe-de Move-on, Johannesburg (4_0043?)

1964 Vintage silver gelatin print Image: 32 x 24 cm

Monument to Karel Landman, Voortrekker leader, unveiled 16 December 1939, De Kol, Cape, 10 April 1993 (4_7651)

1993 Vintage silver gelatin print Image: 20.5 x 25 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Strydom monument and Volkskas head office, Pretoria. 25 April 1982 (4_2835)

1982 Vintage silver gelatin print Image: 27.5 x 34.5 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Rag & Bottle Collectors' Carts, Doornfontein, Johannesburg. April 1974 (4_2229)

1974 Vintage silver gelatin print Image: 25 x 32 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Flushing Meadows and lightning masts, Site B, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, 11 October 1987 (4_5131)

1987 Silver gelatin print on fibre-based paper, dibonded Image: 84 x 119 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Women at play during their lunch hour, Pieter Roos Park, Johannesburg. 1975 (2_21221)

1975 Silver gelatin print on fibre-based paper Image: 46.5 x 45.5 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Woman resting on her way to work. De Villiers Street Park, Johannesburg. 1975 (2_22484)

1975 Silver gelatin print on fibre-based paper Image: 40 x 33.3 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Woman collecting shellfish. Port St Johns, Transkei. 1975 (2_23047)

1975 Silver gelatin print on fibre-based paper Image: 30 x 40 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Copper-bearing rocks, near the workings started by Simon Van Der Stel governor of the Cape, during an expedition in 1650, Carolusberg, Namaqualand, Northern Cape. 1 January 2004 (4_9127)

2004 Digital prints on 100% rag cotton paper in pigment inks

Overflow at Hytkoras, Namaqualand. 30 December 2003 (4_9112)

2003 Digital print on 100% rag cotton paper in pigment inks Available on Request Add to My Selection

Autumn on the Sak River, Nuweveld, Karoo, Western Cape. (4_9207)

2004 Digital print in pigment inks on cotton rag paper Image: 42 x 59.5 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Deserted farm. Holgatsfontein in the Leeukopspan area, between Britstown and Vosburg, Northern Cape. 16 March 2008 (4_A0262)

2008 Digital print in pigment inks on cotton rag paper Image: 23.4 x 16.5 cm

In the cemetery. Sutherland, Western Cape. 16 December 2007 (4_A0205)

2007 Digital print in pigment inks on cotton rag paper Image: 98 x 124 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Farmer's sign for Gate (Hek). Near Rammetjieskraal, between Lainsburg and Prince Albert, Western Cape. 28 May 2004 (4_9262)

2004 Digital Prints on 100% cotton rag paper Available on Request Add to My Selection

Gang on surface work, Rustenburg Platinum Mine, Rustenburg. (2_7212)

1971 Silver gelatin on fibre based paper F:63 x 63.5cm P:46 x 46cm

Margaret Mcingana, who later became famous as the singer Margaret Singana, at home, Sunday afternoon. Zola, Soweto (2_6547)

October 1970 Silver gelatin print on fibre-based paper, dibonded Image: 50 x 50 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

With half of his building destroyed under the Apartheid regulation that had declared this suburb “White”, Hassimia Sahib, butcher, continued trading and refused to move until given the site he had selected in the declared “Asiatic” suburb to which he was to be consigned. Housing for Whites already occupied. Pageview, Johannesburg. 8 March 1986 (4_4051)

1986 Silver gelatin print on fibre-based paper Image: 84 x 119 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

She said to him 'You be the driver and I'll be the madam,' then they picked up the fender and posed, Hillbrow. 1975 (2_21317_19)

1975 Silver gelatin photograph on fibre-based paper 40 x 40cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

George and Sarah Manyane, 3153 Emdeni Extension, Soweto (2_10938)

August 1972 Silver gelatin photograph on fibre-based paper approx. 30 x 40cm

About

David Goldblatt (1930 – 2018) was born in Randfontein, a small mining town outside of Johannesburg, South Africa. He began exploring the medium of photography after matriculating in 1948 but only formally made photography his profession after his father died in 1962 and the family business, a mining concession store, was sold. In the years that followed, while Goldblatt supported his family through photography commissions and magazine work, he produced more than ten major photographic series, documenting the people, landscapes and structures of South Africa.

In 1989, Goldblatt founded the Market Photography Workshop, a training institution in Johannesburg, for aspiring photographers. In 1998 he was the first South African to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2001, a retrospective of his work, David Goldblatt Fifty-One Years began a tour of galleries and museums. He was one of the few South African artists to exhibit at Documenta 11 (2002) and Documenta 12 (2007) in Kassel, Germany. He has held solo exhibitions at the Jewish Museum and the New Museum, both in New York. His work was included in the exhibition ILLUMInations at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, and has featured on shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Barbican Centre in London. In 2017, Goldblatt installed a series of portraits from his photographic essay Ex-Offenders in former prisons in Birmingham and Manchester. The portraits depict men and women, from South African and the UK, at the scene of their crimes, with accompanying texts that relate the subjects’ stories in their words. In the last year of his life, two major retrospectives were opened at Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. The Goldblatt Archive is held by Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut.

Goldblatt is the recipient of the 2006 Hasselblad award, the 2009 Henri Cartier-Bresson Award, the 2013 ICP Infinity Award and in 2016, he was awarded the Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres by the Ministry of Culture of France.

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David Goldblatt ‘Johannesburg 1948-2018’ | Goodman Gallery London

July 2020