Monument to J. G. Strijdom, late prime minister of South Africa, Pretoria

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

A black and white photograph of monuments on a public place. The left hand side of the image shows a statue of four wildly galloping horses raised on a high plinth. On the right hand side a bust of man is arched over by a huge concrete sail. The facade of a concrete high rise fills nearly the whole background.

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Categories	Africa Photographs
Object type	Photograph
Title	Monument to J. G. Strijdom, late prime minister of South Africa, Pretoria (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	gelatin silver print Photographic Paper Gelatin Silver Process
Brief description	'Monument to J. G. Strijdom, late prime minister of South Africa, Pretoria', gelatin silver print by David Goldblatt, 1982.
Physical description	A black and white photograph of monuments on a public place. The left hand side of the image shows a statue of four wildly galloping horses raised on a high plinth. On the right hand side a bust of man is arched over by a huge concrete sail. The facade of a concrete high rise fills nearly the whole background.
Dimensions	Image height: 37.8cm Image width: 47.8cm Sheet height: 40.2cm Sheet width: 50.5cm
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 verso) various annotations (pencil verso)
Credit line	Gift of David Goldblatt, 1987
Subjects depicted	Apartheid National Monuments
Places depicted	South Africa Pretoria
Bibliographic reference	Goldblatt, David. South Africa. The Structure of Things Then. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Illustrated p. 170, text p. 251.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.97-1992

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Record created	May 14, 2008
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O154669/monument-to-j-g-strijdom-photograph-goldblatt-david/

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