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Arriving Family, King George Street, Johannesburg
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In this photograph, David Goldblatt captured a Black family newly arrived in Johannesburg, looking small and vulnerable as they pass the tall pole of a streetlamp, with massive buildings looming…

Contributor:

David Goldblatt

Places:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Date:

1950–1960

Subjects:

Photography, Cities, Family, Apartheid, Black-Jewish relations, Architecture

Categories:

Photography, Architecture
Photograph of man, woman, and child walking down city street with high-rise building and two rickshaws in background.
Leaving a Son to the Partisans, Leningrad
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Mikhail Trakhman was one of several Soviet photographers dropped behind enemy lines by Sovinformburo, the main Soviet agency for the distribution of war-related information, to report on partisans who…

Contributor:

Mikhail Trakhman

Places:

Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Photography, War, Politics, Family, Cities

Categories:

Photography
Photograph of mother kissing her son, who has a gun and a backpack, in foreground, while another soldier waits in the background on his horse holding the reins of another horse.