Photograph overview
The Spurs, 6 February 1968 by Billy Monk presents a nightclub scene photographed in Cape Town on 6 February 1968.
Pictured:
A moment inside The Spurs, one of the nightlife settings associated with Monk’s photographic archive. The individual figures and precise details of the scene are available on request.
The photograph belongs to Monk’s close-range study of nightclub patrons and late-night social spaces. His direct approach placed people at the centre of the frame, recording gesture, dress and interaction within the enclosed setting of the club.
Photographed during apartheid, the work forms part of a broader record of Cape Town nightlife between 1967 and 1969. Monk’s photographs preserve informal social encounters that were rarely represented in official accounts of South African life during this period.
Billy Monk worked as a nightclub bouncer in Cape Town and photographed patrons at dockside venues during the late 1960s. His familiarity with these environments gave him close access to the people he photographed and produced a direct, personal account of the city after dark.
The Spurs, 6 February 1968 is relevant to collections focused on South African documentary photography, nightlife and apartheid-era social history. Its clearly recorded date connects the photograph to Monk’s wider archive while preserving a specific evening within Cape Town’s late-1960s club culture.
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Print Details:
White boarder around the image.
Gelatin Silver Print.
Paper size: 60.96 × 50.8 cm.
Unframed.
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Billy Monk | Spurs, 6 February, 1968
The Spurs, 6 February 1968 by Billy Monk records a late-night scene associated with The Spurs in Cape Town. Made during Monk’s period of photographing the city’s nightclub patrons, the black-and-white photograph forms part of an important social record of Cape Town nightlife during the late 1960s.
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