David Goldblatt; South African 1930-2018; Patience Poni visiting her parents Ruth and Jackson Poni, 1510A Emdeni South, Soweto, 1972
Provenance : The Linda Givon Collection.
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Notes : Another example from the edition is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA. "Goldblatt spent years taking photographs of Johannesburg - of the white areas of the city centre, the comfortable suburbs and the townships on the outskirts of the city. "With a camera, I was for the first time able to expand my experience of other people's lives. Making portraits of people in Soweto in 1972 was a significant moment for me fundamentally," said Goldblatt of his 1972 photographic essay. Goldblatt was engaged in the conditions of society and the values by which people lived, rather than the climactic outcomes of those conditions. He intended to discover and probe these values through the medium of photography."1 1. Goodman Gallery (2024) Goodman Gallery, Patience Poni visiting her parents Ruth and Jackson Poni, 1510A Emdeni South, Soweto (2_11376), online, https://www.goodman-gallery.com/store/shop?ref_id=16673, accessed 15 August 2024.
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