A house painter with his family, Hillbrow, Johannesburg

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Artist/Maker	Goldblatt, David (photographer)
Place of origin	South Africa (photographed)

A black and white photograph of a family sitting on a wall. The father only dressed in shorts carries his son in his arms. The daughter sits on the lap of her mother, kissing her.

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Categories	Africa Photographs
Object type	Photograph
Title	A house painter with his family, Hillbrow, Johannesburg (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	gelatin silver print Photographic Paper Gelatin Silver Process
Brief description	'A house painter with his family, Hillbrow, Johannesburg', gelatin silver print by David Goldblatt, January 1973.
Physical description	A black and white photograph of a family sitting on a wall. The father only dressed in shorts carries his son in his arms. The daughter sits on the lap of her mother, kissing her.
Dimensions	Image height: 25.2cm Image width: 21.5cm Sheet height: 30.3cm Sheet width: 30.1cm
Style	Documentary
Marks and inscriptions	Copyright by David Goldblatt Box 1464, Johannesburg, South Africa (artist's studio and copyright wetstamp, centre verso) titled, dated Jan. 1973, signed (pencil, bottom and right centre verso) various annotations (pencil verso)
Credit line	Gift of David Goldblatt, 1987
Production	Title as appears on verso. This title slightly differs from the one used in 'David Goldblatt. Fifty-one Years' (Barcelona: MACBA, 2001), see references.
Subjects depicted	Apartheid Families
Place depicted	Johannesburg
Bibliographic reference	Goldblatt, David. Fifty-one Years. Barcelona: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2001. Illustrated p. 165.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.43-1992

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Record created	May 14, 2008
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O154673/a-house-painter-with-his-photograph-goldblatt-david/

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