David Goldblatt

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

1982

Not on display

Artist: David Goldblatt 1930–2018
Medium: Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
Dimensions: Image: 365 x 460 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased with funds provided by Artworker's Retirement Society and Caro MacDonald 2013
Reference: P80494

Explore

architecture(41,338)
- residential(5,541)
- - house(2,666)
- ruins(3,720)
- - demolition site(29)
  - residential(215)
- townscapes / man-made features(21,710)
- - tower block(156)
  - townscape(3,313)
emotions, concepts and ideas(16,875)
- formal qualities(12,931)
- - documentary(1,154)
  - photographic(5,089)
- universal concepts(6,472)
- - desolation(135)
  - destruction(391)
history(5,803)
- politics and society(2,370)
- - civil and human rights: Group Areas Act, destruction of District Six, Cape Town, May 1982(1)
  - civil and human rights: South Africa, Apartheid, 1948-1994(39)
places(41,542)
- cities, towns, villages (non-UK)(13,291)
- - Cape Town, District 6(1)
- countries and continents(17,557)
- - South Africa(100)
society(34,906)
- social comment(6,597)
- - civil rights(193)
  - displacement(24)
  - prejudice(83)
  - race(392)

David Goldblatt

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

1982

Share this page

Not on display

Explore

You might like

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

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

David Goldblatt House near Phuthaditjhaba. Qwa Qwa. 1 May 1989

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

David Goldblatt Woman on a Bench, Joubert Park, Johannesburg

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

David Goldblatt Man Sleeping. Joubert Park, Johannesburg

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

Roger Ballen Abandoned House, Smithfield

Deanna Petherbridge CBE The Destruction of the City of Homs

Neville Gabie Greylingstad

Chris Killip North Shield Housing Estate on May 5 1981. The day Bobby Sands’ death was announced.

Neville Gabie Bubi River

Neville Gabie Van Reenans Pass

Join in

Share this page

Not on display

Explore

You might like

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

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

David Goldblatt House near Phuthaditjhaba. Qwa Qwa. 1 May 1989

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

David Goldblatt Woman on a Bench, Joubert Park, Johannesburg

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

David Goldblatt Man Sleeping. Joubert Park, Johannesburg

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

Roger Ballen Abandoned House, Smithfield

Deanna Petherbridge CBE The Destruction of the City of Homs

Neville Gabie Greylingstad

Chris Killip North Shield Housing Estate on May 5 1981. The day Bobby Sands’ death was announced.

Neville Gabie Bubi River

Neville Gabie Van Reenans Pass

Sign up to our newsletter