In the Time of Color

A color photograph of people seated on chairs and benches on a sidewalk. One does the hair of another. A sign at left lists prices. A man and a young stand around the seated figures.

David Goldblatt, At Kevin’s Kwanele’s Takwaito Barber, Lansdowne Road, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, in the time of AIDS, 16 May 2007, 2007. Pigmented inkjet print. Yale University Art Gallery, Purchased with a gift from Jane P. Watkins, M.P.H. 1979; with the Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund; and with support from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © David Goldblatt 

Join Leslie M. Wilson, Academic Curator and Director of Research Programs at the Art Institute of Chicago and a co-organizer of the exhibition David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive, to discuss David Goldblatt’s color photography. For most of Goldblatt’s career, he worked in black and white. But after apartheid’s official end, he produced major new work in color. This Gallery Talk explores that change and its relationship to the profound transformations taking place in a newly democratic South Africa in the 1990s. Generously sponsored by Jane P. Watkins, M.P.H. 1979. 

Offered in conjunction with the exhibition David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive. Exhibition co-organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Yale University Art Gallery, in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid.  

Meet by the central column in the Gallery lobby. Space is limited.