Photographs -- South Africa

Scope and Contents: This collection contains photographic prints, contact sheets, negatives, slides, research material, printed material, correspondence, and other papers by or relating to South African photographer David Goldblatt. The work represented in the collection primarily consists of Goldblatt's personal photographic work, but also includes Goldblatt's work as a professional photographer for magazines, corporations, advertising agencies, and other institutions. Major projects and exhibitions...

Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence; journals and diaries; government documents; reports and printed material of various organizations, political parties, and individuals; ephemera; and photographs which document various aspects of the history of South Africa and its political, economic, social, and cultural conditions from the colonial period of the 1800s to 1948, the year which marks the legalization of apartheid. The bulk of the collection focuses on the South African War, more...