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Nightriders of Kwandebele: +/- 2.45am: First bus of the day pulls in at Mathysloop. Bus will reach terminus in Marabastad at 5.15am

Photograph
03/02/1984 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A black and white photograph of a group of people waiting along the side of a road in the dark, a bus can be seen the far left corner.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleNightriders of Kwandebele: +/- 2.45am: First bus of the day pulls in at Mathysloop. Bus will reach terminus in Marabastad at 5.15am (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
gelatin silver print
Brief description
'Nightriders of Kwandebele: +/- 2.45am: First bus of the day pulls in at Mathysloop. Bus will reach terminus in Marabastad at 5.15am', gelatin silver print by David Goldblatt, 1984
Physical description
A black and white photograph of a group of people waiting along the side of a road in the dark, a bus can be seen the far left corner.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 31.4cm
  • Image width: 24.4cm
  • Sheet height: 38cm
  • Sheet width: 30cm
Size of image: 31.4 x 24.4 cm Size of sheet: 38 x 30 cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • Copyright by David Goldblatt Box 1464, Johannesburg, South Africa (artist's studio and copyright wetstamp, centre verso)
  • titled, dated 3/2/84, signed (pencil, centre verso)
  • various annotations (pencil verso)
Production
Title as appears on verso; this title differs from the title assigned to the work as published in The Transported where the work is entitled '2.45 AM.: The first bus of the day pulls in at Mathysloop on the Boekenhouthoek-Marabastad route from KwaNdbele to Pretoria'.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Goldblatt, David. The Transported of Kwandebele. A South African Odyssey. New York: Aperture, 1989. Illustrated p. 15. Accompanying text on p. 14 reads: 'At about 2:40 A.M. a line for the earliest bus forms near a resettlement camp in the bush of KwaNdebele on the Boekenhouthoek-Marabastad route. The distance between the resettlement camps of KwaNdebele and the bus terminal at Marabastad in Pretoria, is between 100 and 160 kilometers (between about 62 and 99 miles). Depending on which camp commuters travel from, and provided that there are no breakdowns, the journey to Pretoria might take them anything from 1.8 to 3.2 hours. But since many workers take onward transport for up to another hour to get to their place of work, the whole journey might take up to about 4 hours. Thus the commuting workers of KwaNdebele spend between about 3 1/2 and 8 hours a day travelling to and from work.'
Collection
Accession number
PH.63-1987

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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