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The University of Massachusetts Amherst


David Goldblatt
South African (1930–2018)
Stalled municipal housing scheme, Kwezi Naledi, Lady Grey, Eastern Cape. 5 August 2006, 2006

Color digital print on cotton rag paper; edition 9/10 38 13/16 in × 50 3/8 in
Gift of David Goldblatt
Image courtesy Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
©Estate of David Goldblatt   UM 2011.2



These images by photographers from the U.S., Mexico, Vietnam, and South Africa are personal diaries of a place, exploring the evolving relationship between people and place, rural and urban, old and new, timelessness and change, natural and artificial— at once symbolic, physical, historical, and intimately personal.


Artists
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
LaToya Ruby Frazier
David Goldblatt
An-My Lê
Sheron Rupp
Carrie Mae Weems

Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Mexican (1902-2002) 
El Perro Veinte (Dog 20), n.d. 
Printed and signed by the artist in Mexico City, Mexico 
Gelatin silver print 

Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Mexican (1902-2002) 
Tentciones En Casa De Antonio, 1970 
Printed and signed by the artist in Mexico City, Mexico 
Gelatin silver print 

Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Mexican (1902-2002) 
Manos en el 210 de Fernandez Leal (Hands on the 210 of Fernandez Leal), 1976 
Printed and signed by the artist in Mexico City, Mexico 
Gelatin silver print 

Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Mexican (1902-2002) 
Que Chiquito es El Mundo (How Small The World is), 1942 
Printed and signed by the artist in Mexico City, Mexico 
Gelatin silver print 

LaToya Ruby Frazier, American (1982- ) 
Born by Water and Spirit, Ninth and Washington Avenue, 2009 
Gelatin silver print 

LaToya Ruby Frazier, American (1982- ) 
U.S.S. Edgar Thomson Steel Works and Monongahela River, 2013 
Gelatin silver print 

David Goldblatt, South African (1930-2018) 
Stalled municipal housing scheme, Kwezi Naledi, Lady Grey, Eastern Cape. 5 August 2006, 2006 Africa; South Africa; Johannesburg 

An-My Lê, American born Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (1960- ) 
Untitled, Sapa, Viêt Nam, 1995 
Gelatin silver print 

An-My Lê, American born Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (1960- ) 
Untitled, Thanh Hoa, Viêt Nam, 1998 
Gelatin silver print 

Sheron Rupp, American (1943- ) 
Sara Jean, Millersburg, Ohio, 1983; print 1996 
Ektacolor C print on Kodak Professional Paper 

Sheron Rupp, American (1943- ) 
Roy and Johnnie, Wartrace, Tennessee, 1990 negative; 2004 print 
Chromogenic color photograph on Kodak Endura paper 

Carrie Mae Weems, American (1953- ) 
The Edge of Time - Ancient Rome from the series Roaming, 2006 
Digital c-print