Funeral with military honours.for two National Service men, boyhood friends, killed in the same action against SWAPO forces on the Namibia-Angola border, Boksburg

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

A black and white photograph depicting a funeral, with people standing around an open grave into which the coffin seems to have just been lowered. In the centre of the image, a man in uniform salutes the dead.

Techniques: Gelatin-silver print

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Categories	Africa Photographs
Object type	Photograph
Title	Funeral with military honours.for two National Service men, boyhood friends, killed in the same action against SWAPO forces on the Namibia-Angola border, Boksburg (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	gelatin silver print Photographic Paper Gelatin Silver Process
Brief description	'Funeral with military honours, Boksburg', gelatin silver print by David Goldblatt, 1980.
Physical description	A black and white photograph depicting a funeral, with people standing around an open grave into which the coffin seems to have just been lowered. In the centre of the image, a man in uniform salutes the dead. Techniques: Gelatin-silver print
Dimensions	Image height: 27cm Image width: 27cm Sheet height: 30.4cm Sheet width: 30.3cm Size of image: 27 x 27 cm Size of sheet: 30.4 x 30.3 cm
Style	Documentary
Marks and inscriptions	Copyright by David Goldblatt Box 1464, Johannesburg, South Africa (artist's studio and copyright wetstamp, centre verso) titled, dated 1980, signed (pencil, bottom and right centre verso) various annotations (pencil verso)
Credit line	Gift of David Goldblatt, 1987
Subjects depicted	Apartheid Mourning Funerals Soldiers
Places depicted	South Africa Boksburg
Bibliographic references	Goldblatt, David. In Boksburg. New York: Errata Editions, 2010. Illustrated plate 39. Goldblatt, David. In Boksburg. Cape Town: The Gallery Press, 1982. Illustrated plate 68.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.78-1992

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Record created	March 17, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O199917/funeral-with-military-honoursfor-two-photograph-goldblatt-david/

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