Mine Dumps Johannesburg

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Artist/Maker	Alexander Keighley (photographer)
Place of origin	Johannesburg (photographed)

Monochrome photograph mounted on card depicting a landscape with two prominent conical mining dumps. In the lower third of the image is a depression in the ground and a fence. A chimney producing smoke can be seen behind on of the conical dumps.

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Categories	The Royal Photographic Society Photographs Industry Portraits RPS Digitisation Project
Object type	Photograph
Title	Mine Dumps Johannesburg (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Carbon print Carbon Process Photography
Brief description	Photograph by Alexander Keighley, 'Mine Dumps Johannesburg', carbon print, 1939
Physical description	Monochrome photograph mounted on card depicting a landscape with two prominent conical mining dumps. In the lower third of the image is a depression in the ground and a fence. A chimney producing smoke can be seen behind on of the conical dumps.
Dimensions	Mount height: 607mm Mount width: 505mm
Marks and inscriptions	'Royal Photographic Society/ Alexander Keighley Collection 1948/ Title: Mine Dumps Johannesburg/ Process: Carbon/ Date: 1939 / No. AK 171' (Printed and completed in ink.) 'Alex Keighley' (Handwritten in ink on the lower right corner of the image and again in pencil below the image on the mount.)
Credit line	The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund.
Other numbers	2148 - RPS identifier - inventory no. 13565 - RPS identifier - inventory no. 171 - RPS identifier - misc. 2003-5001_2_26104 - Science Museum Group accession number
Collection	Department of Photography
Accession number	RPS.2103-2018

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Record created	June 20, 2018
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1443545/mine-dumps-johannesburg-photograph-alexander-keighley/

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