A Barber's Chair of Mining Timbers, Outside a Compound on the Luipaardsvlei Estates, Krugersdorp, 1965

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist, 1990.

The Alan Siegel Collection, USA.

Phillips, New York, 1 October 2014, part of lot 307.

Private Collection, Johannesburg.

Literature

Alan Siegel and Robert A. Sobieszek, One Man’s Eye: Photographs from the Alan Siegel Collection, New York, Word Wise Press, 2000, distributed by Harry N. Abrams.

Nadine Gordimer and David Goldblatt, Witwatersrand: Time & Tailings, Johannesburg, Optima magazine, Vol18, No1, March 1968, pp20-35; illustrated page 29.

David Goldblatt and Nadine Gordimer, On the Mines, Cape Town, Struik, 1973; illustrated plate 11.

David Goldblatt and Nadine Gordimer, Lifetimes: Under Apartheid, New York, Knopf, 1986; illustrated page 10.

David Goldblatt and Nadine Gordimer, On the Mines, Göttingen, Steidel, 2012; illustrated page 49.

Karolina Ziebenska-Lewandowska, David Goldblatt – Structures of Dominion and Democracy, published by Steidel/ Centre Pompidou, 2018, on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Centre Pompidou, Paris Galerie 4, 21 February to 7 May 2018; illustrated page 54.

Rachel Kent, David Goldblatt Photographs 1948-2018, published 2018 on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney Australia, 19 October 2018 to 3 March 2019; illustrated page 100.

Notes

Alan Siegel, the CEO of Siegelvision, a strategic marketing firm, and founder and chairman emeritus of brand and design powerhouse Siegel+Gale, put together an important, wide-ranging and museum-grade photographic collection. He studied photography with Alexey Brodovitch and Lisette Model before embarking on a successful career in design and advertising. An avid collector of photography since the early 1960s, he served on the Board of Trustees of the International Center of Photography and The Center for Communications. Siegel brought his collection to broader attention through the publication of One Man's Eye: Photographs from the Alan Siegel Collection (2000) in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

When travelling on business throughout the world, I frequently ask my clients to introduce me to leading photographers in their country. While working on an assignment in South Africa in 1988, I had the pleasure of spending an afternoon with David Goldblatt, a white photographer born in South Africa in 1930, who has spent much of his life documenting the human damage wrought by apartheid.

- Alan Siegel

Siegel had been introduced to Goldblatt through a mutual friend Sam Haskins (1926-2009), famed South African-born photographer and photo-graphic illustrator; Haskins was the author of the books, inter alia, Five Girls (1962) and Cowboy Kate & Other Stories (1964), the latter awarded the prestigious Prix Nadar in 1964.

Another example of this print is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

Another example of this print is part of the collection of Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.

Exhibited

Paris, Centre Pompidou, David Goldblatt – Structures of Dominion and Democracy, 21 February – 7 May 2018, another impression exhibited.

Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, David Goldblatt Photographs 1948-2018, 19 October 2018 to 3 March 2019, another impression exhibited.