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Family at Lunch, Wheatlands Plots, Randfontein

Photograph
9/1962 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Goldblatt, David (photographer)
Place of origin
South Africa (photographed)

A black and white photograph of a farmers family grouped around a table, the father in dungarees sitting in the centre of the picture, the boy on the left, the mother standing on the right. There is bread and peanut butter on the table along with some mugs and spoons.


Object details
Categories
Photographs
Africa
Object type
Photograph
Materials and techniques
gelatin silver print
Photographic Paper
Gelatin Silver Process
Brief description
'Family at lunch, Wheatlands Plots, Randfontein', gelatin silver print by David Goldblatt, September 1962.
Physical description
A black and white photograph of a farmers family grouped around a table, the father in dungarees sitting in the centre of the picture, the boy on the left, the mother standing on the right. There is bread and peanut butter on the table along with some mugs and spoons.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 20cm
  • Image width: 29.8cm
  • Sheet height: 27.9cm
  • Sheet width: 35.3cm
Style
Documentary
Marks and inscriptions
  • Copyright by David Goldblatt Box 1464, Johannesburg, South Africa (artist's studio and copyright wetstamp, centre verso)
  • titled, dated 1962, signed (pencil, bottom and lower centre verso)
  • various annotations (pencil verso)
Credit line
Gift of David Goldblatt, 1987
Production
Title as appears on verso. This title differs from the one published by the artist's gallery, Michael Stevenson, where the work is entitled: 'A plot-holder, his wife and their eldest son at lunch, Wheatlands, near Randfontein, Transvaal (Gauteng), September 1962'.
Subjects depicted
Apartheid
Families
Place depicted
South Africa
Bibliographic reference
Goldblatt, David. Some Afrikaners Revisited. Roggebaai, South Africa: Umuzi, 2007.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.7-1992

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Record createdJuly 25, 2003
Record URL
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