GALLERY: David Goldblatt: Photographs through the years



  • Children on the border between Fietas and Mayfair, Johannesburg, 1949. Photograph by David Goldblatt.




  • A farmer’s son with his nursemaid, Heimweeberg, Nietverdiend, Western Transvaal, 1964. Photograph by David Goldblatt.




  • “Boss Boy”detail, Battery Reef, Randfontein Estates Gold Mine,  1966. .Photograph by David Goldblatt.




  • Team leader (left) and mine captain (right) on a pedal car, Rustenburg Platinum Mine, Rustenburg, 1971. Photograph by David Goldblatt.




  • Yaksha Modi, daughter of Chagan Modi, in her father’s shop before its destruction under the Group Areas Act, 17th Street, Fietas, Johannesburg, 1976. Photograph by David Goldblatt.




  • Ozzie Docrat with his daughter Nassima in his shop before its destruction under the Group Areas Act, Fietas, Johannesburg, 1977. Photograph by David Goldblatt




  • Spec housing and children on the veld at Parkrand, 1979. Photograph by David Goldblatt.




  • Going home: Marabastad-Waterval route: for most of the people in this bus, the cycle will start again tomorrow at between 02:00 and 03:00 am, 1984. Photograph by David Goldblatt.




  • “Lashing” shovels retrieved from underground. Every grain  of sand in the yellow tailings dumps that made the Witwatersrand landscape and every grain of gold that made its wealth, came from a rock off a black man’s shovel underground. Central Salvage Yard, Randfontein Estates, Randfontein,  1966. Photograph by David Goldblatt.




  • The Apostolic Multiracial  Church in Zion of SA. Crossroads, Cape Town, 1984. Photograph by David Goldblatt.




  • 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. Pageview, Johannesburg. 8  March  1986. Photograph by David Goldblatt.




  • Braiding hair on Bree Street, Johannesburg. 7 September 2002. Photograph by David Goldblatt.




  • Anna Boois, goat Farmer, with her birthday cake and vegetable garden, Kamiesberge, near Garies, Namaqualand, Northern Cape. 20 September 2003. Photograph by David Goldblatt.




  • Freedom Square: On 26 June 1955, under harassment by the Apartheid police, some 3000 people of all races from all over South Africa gathered in a Congress of the People and adopted the Freedom Charter – a template for the governance of a non-racial, democratic South Africa. The Charter became the basis of South Africa’s democratic Constitution. Kliptown, Soweto, Johannesburg. 10 December 2003. Photograph by David Goldblatt.




  • Johnny Basson, goatherd,  Rooipadse Vlak, Pella, Northern  Cape, 2004. Photograph by David Goldblatt.




  • Remains of households in a children’s game called onopopi, and the shells of incomplete houses in a housing scheme that stalled, Kwezinaledi, Lady Grey, Eastern Cape. 5 May 2006. Photograph by David Goldblatt.




  • On August 16 2012 South African Police shot striking mineworkers of the Lonro platinum mines, killing 34 and wounding 78 in seemingly wild shooting without good cause. The men were shot, some with their hands up in surrender, within a radius of about 300 metres of this koppie on which they met. Beyond is the Lonro smelter, which stood idle during the strike. Marikana, North-West Province. 11 May 2014. Photograph by David Goldblatt.




  • The dethroning of Cecil John Rhodes, after the throwing of  human faeces on the statue and the agreement of the University to the demands of students for its removal. The University of Cape Town, 9 April 2015. Photograph by David Goldblatt.


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