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Apartheid officially descended on South Africa in , the same year that David Goldblatt — came of age. In , his grandparents, Lithuanian Jews, had sought refuge in South Africa to escape persecution in their home country, and Goldblatt, the youngest of three brothers, was born in Randfontein, Gauteng Province — a gold mining city just west of Johannesburg. Growing up, Goldblatt witnessed the endemic racial discrimination that had pervaded South Africa since the late 18th-century with the arrival of Dutch colonisers. With the arrival of apartheid, however, segregation was institutionalised, marking an unprecedented entrenchment of discriminatory practices and ideals.
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Eighteen-years-old, and with a camera in hand, Goldblatt began to hitchhike from Randfontein to Johannesburg through the night, exploring the city through photographing it and observing the progressive hostility of a metropolis in which racism was becoming structurally ingrained. His sustained and perpetual documentation of it reveals both changes to the city during apartheid and the post-apartheid period, and the evolution of his style as it matured and shifted focus.
Goldblatt was distinct from other documentarians of the era. His documentation of Johannesburg survives him as an incomparable archive of the city, and this is the focus of an exhibition at Goodman Gallery, London: David Goldblatt Johannesburg — 08 July—25 August Without context, the conditions in which Goldblatt took a photograph are not always evident. Two blankets were bought from Cassim Stores, Marabastad, Pretoria and four were purchased directly from the manufacturer of Basotho blankets, Aranda Textile Mills Pty Ltd, whose main factory and showroom is located in Randfontein, west of Johannesburg.
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Subjects plant. Associated ethnic name Associated with: Sotho South Sotho. Acquisition date Soweto: A man and a passing woman, Tladi. Soweto: Butchering a coal merchant's horse for its meat after it had been condemned and shot by a municipal inspector, Tladi. November Soweto: Margaret Mcingana at home on a Sunday afternoon, Zola.
As Margaret Singana she became a famous singer. She died on 22 April at the age of Soweto: Meadowlands from Mofolo, Soweto, Johannesburg.
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Soweto: Young men with dompas, White City, Jabavu. Squatter camp of foreign nationals between the N1 and railway property at Woodstock. Cape Town.
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Structures: Luke Kgatitsoe at his house, destroyed by government bulldozers in February Magopa, Ventersdorp district. Structures: Mother and child in their home after the destruction of its shelter by officials of the Western Cape Development Board, Crossroads, Cape Town. Structures: Remnant of a wild almond hedge planted in to keep the indigenous Khoe out of the first European settlement in South Africa, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town.
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Structures: Speculative investment by a property developer in a house which he claimed was 'authentic Cape Dutch' but which was, in fact, a grossly corrupted version of that form, Agatha, Tzaneen district. Structures: Unemployed men and Krugerpark government housing scheme for lower and middle class whites.
Pretoria, Transvaal. Goldblatt, David. Biography South African, — Artworks by Goldblatt, David.
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