- Artists
- David Goldblatt
- Artworks
- “Lashing” shovels retrieved from underground. Every grain of sand in the yellow tailings dumps that made the Witwatersrand landscape and every grain of gold that made its wealth, came from a rock off a black man’s shovel underground. Central Salvage Yard, Randfontein Estates, Randfontein, 1966 (4_0307)
David Goldblatt
“Lashing” shovels retrieved from underground. Every grain of sand in the yellow tailings dumps that made the Witwatersrand landscape and every grain of gold that made its wealth, came from a rock off a black man’s shovel underground. Central Salvage Yard, Randfontein Estates, Randfontein, 1966 (4_0307)
, 1996PhotographySilver gelatin print on fibre-based paper
43 x 54 см; (16.929 x 21.26 inches)
Unique work