You can see the evidence in
David Goldblatt, "Sunday morning: A not-white family living illegally in the 'White' group area of Hillbrow, Johannesburg," 1978, printed later. (David Goldblatt/Yale University Art Gallery)
pictured in Sebastian Smee's exhibit review. Although strictly speaking, the reader is NOT reading the strip, but rather facing it out towards Goldblatt.
I was reading the strip at the same time in the NY Daily News, but probably not getting much out of it.
Smee's entire review is at
His photographs cut through apartheid — and never diminished their subjects
David Goldblatt's photographs, on view in a brilliant retrospective, exposed the moral rot of apartheid while preserving the humanity of the South Africans who lived it.
May 17, 2025
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