David Goldblatt, New Pictures 10, Of Us and Art: The 100 Videos Project, Episode 02 from mandela all videos Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 1 min 48 sec
✓ Published: 30-Jan-2015

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“In the 1980s and 90s I photographed structures that we South Africans had made during the Era of Baasskap—that time, from about 1660 until 1990, in which Whites gradually came to exert dominion over all of South Africa and its peoples. It was the values we had expressed in those structures that I sought and attempted to elicit in photographs and text.nn“Beginning in 1999—four years after the first democratic elections brought Nelson Mandela to power—and continuing into the present, I