David Goldblatt

Man Sleeping. Joubert Park, Johannesburg

1975, printed 2013

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Artist: David Goldblatt 1930–2018
Medium: Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
Dimensions: Image: 364 × 355 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased using funds provided by the Africa Acquisitions Committee 2013
Reference: P80499

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David Goldblatt

Man Sleeping. Joubert Park, Johannesburg

1975, printed 2013

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David Goldblatt Woman Resting on her Way to Work. De Villiers Street Park, Johannesburg

David Goldblatt Blanketed Man at the Trading Store. Hobeni, Bomvanaland, Transkei

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David Goldblatt Woman on a Bench, Joubert Park, Johannesburg

David Goldblatt Child Minder. Joubert Park, Johannesburg

David Goldblatt The destruction of District Six under the Group Areas Act. Cape Town, Cape. 5 May 1982

David Goldblatt The place to which the government wanted the people of Oukasie to move. Letlhabile Removal Camp, Transvaal. 30 November 1986

David Goldblatt Die Heldeakker, The Heroes’ Acre: cemetery for White members of the security forces killed in ‘The Total Onslaught’. Ventersdorp, Transvaal. 1 November 1986

David Goldblatt Dutch Reformed Church, inaugurated on 31 July 1966. Op-die-Berg, Koue Bokkeveld, Cape. 23 May 1987

David Goldblatt Stairway to a storeroom, probably made by slaves in 1781. Meerlust wine farm, near Stellenbosch, Cape. 24 November 1990

Don McCullin Sleeping man, Spitalfields, London

Patrick Procktor Municipal Gardens, Johannesburg

Roger Ballen Portrait of Sleeping Girl

Louise Bourgeois Sleeping Man

Neil Kenlock Leila Hussain at a demonstration, London

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