Pondo miners, mine compound, Carletonville, 1970
1970; printed 1983
- Medium
- gelatin silver photograph
- Measurements
- 25.9 × 25.8 cm (image) 30.5 × 30.4 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Carletonville, South Africa
- Inscription
- inscribed (diagonally) in pencil on reverse l.c.l.: David Goldblatt / 1983.
inscribed (diagonally) in pencil on reverse l.c.r.: Pondo miners, / mine compound. / Carletonville 1970. - Accession Number
- PH149-1983
- Department
- International Photography
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of the artist, 1983
© The David Goldblatt Legacy Trust
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Daryl and Anne Whinney - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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David Goldblatt’s photographs from the 1970s and 1980s form a striking portrait of the inequities faced in South Africa under the rule of apartheid. The Afrikaner people in Goldblatts images clearly live a life of privilege, and their middle-class affluence is highlighted in an uncomfortable juxtaposition with the lives of black South Africans.
