David Goldblatt Photographs and Films, 1960-1976

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David Goldblatt Photographs and Films, 1960-1976

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Documentary photographer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Collection of 251 black and white photographic prints taken by David Goldblatt of black and white South African miners, and white South African Afrikaners during the 1960s. Collection also includes copies of three 16 mm films, , , and , created by Goldblatt in 1976 from his still images. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts, Duke University. Soweto On the Mines Some Afrikaners

3.6 Linear Feet; 257 Items

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David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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Goldblatt, David

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David Goldblatt was born November 29, 1930 in the South African city Randfontein of the province Gauteng. His photographic career began at age eighteen when he began taking pictures. With parents and grandparents who fled Lithuania around 1890 to escape from religious persecution against Jews, Goldblatt found himself simultaneously a part of white society that saw itself as superior, and an object of racial and religious oppression; this may explain in part the subjects of his images, which expl...