David’s work is defined by its painter sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.

8:45 p.m. Going home, Marabastad–Waterval bus: 45 minutes to the terminal
David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

2:40 a.m. Going to work, Mathysloop, KwaNdebele
David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

4:00 a.m. Going to work, Wolwekraal–Marabastad bus: More than an hour and a half still to go
David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

5:52 a.m. Going to work in 2012: Buses from former KwaNdebele homeland stream down the road to Pretoria
David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

3:15 a.m. Going to work: standing room only now, on the Wolwekraal-Marabastad bus, which is licensed to carry 62 sitting and 29 standing passengers
David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

A.m./p.m. travellers from KwaNdebele buying their weekly season tickets at the PUTCO Bus Depot in Pretoria
David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

Elder of the Dutch Reformed Church walking home with his family after the Sunday service, Carnavon, Cape Province (Northern Cape), January 1968
David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

The farmer's son with his nursemaid, the farm Heimweeberg, near Nietverdiend in the Marco Bushveld. Transvaal (North-West Province), 1964
David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

Family at Lunch, Wheatlands Plot, Randfontein, 1962
David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

3:30 a.m. Going to work: The interior of this bus is dimly lit by a small green bulb at one end of the aisle and a small red one at the other. But once it reaches the highway, the headlights of the stream of buses and taxis taking workers to Pretoria are an almost continuous glare through the rear window, from the series "The Transported of KwaNdebele"
David Goldblatt South African, 1930-2018

Interior of St. Mark's, Venice
David Dalhoff Neal (American, 1838–1915)

American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman)
David Hockney English, 1937-2026

A child from the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia plays with a homemade doll. Her family, temporarily housed in the ruins of a military barracks, were among thousands of displaced persons in the region, Vienna, Austria
Chim (David Seymour) American, born Poland, 1911–1956

Lamentation over the Body of Christ
Gerard David (Netherlandish, c. 1460–1523)

Old Sarum
David Lucas (English, 1802-1881) after John Constable (English, 1776-1837)

Tanktotem I
David Smith American, 1906-1965

River Stour, Suffolk
David Lucas (English, 1802-1881) after John Constable (English, 1776-1837)

The cannon 'Mons Meg' at Edinburgh Castle, and a private in the 2nd battalion of Royal Scots who garrisoned the Castle in 1846
David Octavius Hill (Scottish, 1802–1870) and Robert Adamson (Scottish, 1821–1848)

Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows: the Rainbow
David Lucas (English, 1802-1881) after John Constable (English, 1776-1837)