In the office of the Peopleʼs Funeral Parlour, Orlando West, Soweto, August 1972

© The David Goldblatt Legacy Trust

In the office of the Peopleʼs Funeral Parlour, Orlando West, Soweto, August 1972

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In the office of the Peopleʼs Funeral Parlour, Orlando West, Soweto, August 1972,

1972

David Goldblatt, 1930–2018; born Gauteng, South Africa; died Johannesburg
2014-3

Information

Title
In the office of the Peopleʼs Funeral Parlour, Orlando West, Soweto, August 1972
Dates

1972

Maker
David Goldblatt
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 19 × 18.8 cm (7 1/2 × 7 3/8 in.) sheet: 25.8 × 20.3 cm (10 3/16 × 8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund and Hugh Leander Adams, Mary Trumbull Adams and Hugh Trumbull Adams Princeton Art Fund
Object Number
2014-3
Place Depicted

Africa, South Africa, Johannesburg, Soweto

Culture
African
Type
photographs, black-and-white photographs, gelatin silver prints
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
offices, women, headscarves, filing cabinets, desks, figures (representations), moons

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