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For the British writer and broadcaster, see David Goldblatt (writer).

David Goldblatt (born 29 November 1930 in Randfontein, Gauteng Province) is a South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of apartheid and more recently that country's landscapes.

Life and work

David Goldblatt is the youngest of the three sons of Eli and Olga Goldblatt. His grandparents arrived in South Africa from Lithuania around 1893, having fled the persecution of Jews in the Baltic countries.[1]

Goldblatt worked in his father's men's outfitters, attended Krugersdorp High School, and graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a degree in commerce.[2][3]

Goldblatt began photographing in 1948 and has documented developments in South Africa through the period of apartheid to the present. He has numerous publications to his name and is held in high esteem, both locally and internationally. His book, South Africa: The Structure of Things Then, published in 1998, offers an in-depth visual analysis of the relationship between South Africa’s structures and the forces that shaped them, from the country’s early colonial beginnings up until 1990. During apartheid, Goldblatt documented the dreadfully extensive and uncomfortable twice-daily bus trips of black workers who lived in the segregated "homelands" north east of Pretoria in his work The Transported of KwaNdebele. According to Goldblatt, the conditions of South Africa have not changed that much for poor people since apartheid. He also states, "It will take generations to undo the consequences of Apartheid." He continues to photographs of the area including the landscape.[4]

His work is held in major museum collections worldwide. A solo exhibition of his work was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1998. Interest in Goldblatt’s work increased significantly after the eleventh Documenta (Kassel, 2002), as well as a travelling exhibition of 51 years of his work (Barcelona, 2001). At Documenta two projects were shown: black-and white work depicting life in the middle-class white community of Boksburg in the 1970s and '80s, as well as examples of later colour work from the series Johannesburg Intersections. The comprehensive retrospective of his work, which opened in the AXA Gallery in New York in 2001, offered an overview of Goldblatt’s photographic oeuvre from 1948–1999.

Until the end of the 1990s Goldblatt – in what he calls his personal work – rarely photographed in colour.[5] It was only after working on a project involving blue asbestos in north-western Australia, and the resulting disease and death, that his interest in photographing in colour increased. "That’s when I got hooked on doing work in color," he says. "You can’t make it blue in black and white."[4] This was coupled with new developments in the field of digital scanning and printing. Only when Goldblatt was able to achieve the same "depth" in his colour work that he had previously achieved in his black-and-white photographs, did he choose to explore this field extensively. The result is a blend of Goldblatt’s expertise in the field of classic large-format photography combined with the latest techniques offered by high-end scanners and advanced ink-jet papers, producing images redolent of South Africa’s light and land.

Goldblatt cites writers, rather than visual artists, as his major influences. Among these writers are Herman Charles Bosman, Nadine Gordimer, Njabulo Ndebele, Ivan Vladislavic and playwright Barney Simon.

Goldblatt was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society in 2007. These are awarded to distinguished persons having, from their position or attainments, an intimate connection with the science or fine art of photography or the application thereof.

David Goldblatt lives in Johannesburg.

Publications

  • On the Mines. With Nadine Gordimer. Cape Town: C Struik, 1973. ISBN 0-86977-029-2. Template:En icon
  • Some Afrikaners Photographed. Johannesburg: Murray Crawford, 1975. Template:En icon
  • Cape Dutch Homesteads. With Margaret Courtney-Clark and John Kench. Cape Town: C Struik, 1981. ISBN 0-86977-140-X. Template:En icon
  • In Boksburg. Cape Town: The Gallery Press, 1982. ISBN 0-620-05933-8. Template:En icon
  • David Goldblatt: Thirty-five years of photographs, April 1983 to January 1984 / Vyf-en-dertig jaar se foto's, April 1983 tot Januarie 1984. Cape Town: South African National Gallery, 1983. Small exhibition catalogue. Template:Af iconTemplate:En icon
  • Lifetimes: Under Apartheid. With Nadine Gordimer. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1986. ISBN 0-394-55406-X. London: Cape, 1986. ISBN 0-224-02870-7. Template:En icon
  • South Africa. London: The Photographers' Gallery, 1986. ISBN 0-907879-07-1. Small exhibition catalogue. Template:En icon
  • The Transported of KwaNdebele: A South African Odyssey. With Brenda Goldblatt and Phillip van Niekerk. New York: Aperture Books, 1989. ISBN 0-89381-366-4, ISBN 0-89381-385-0. Template:En icon
  • South Africa: The Structure of Things Then. Cape Town: Oxford University Press 1998. ISBN 0-19-571631-0. New York: Monacelli, 1998. ISBN 1-58093-026-3. With an essay by Neville Dubow. Template:En icon
  • David Goldblatt. Phaidon 55. London: Phaidon, 2001. ISBN 0-7148-4051-3. With text by Lesley Lawson. Template:En icon
  • David Goldblatt Fifty-One Years. Barcelona: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2001. ISBN 84-95273-78-0. Template:En icon
  • Particulars. Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, 2003. ISBN 0-620-30659-9. ("Prix du Livre ", XVIe Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie Arles 2004)
  • David Goldblatt – Intersections. Munich: Prestel, 2005. ISBN 3-7913-3247-3.
  • David Goldblatt – Photographs. Rome: Contrasto, 2006. ISBN 88-6965-015-4.
  • David Goldblatt – Some Afrikaners Revisited. With Antjie Krog and Ivor Powell. Cape Town: Umuzi, 2007. ISBN 1-4152-0025-4 (paper), ISBN 1-4152-0026-2 (hard). Revised and augmented edition of Some Afrikaners Photographed (1975).
  • David Goldblatt: Photographs: Hasselblad Award 2006. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz; Göteburg: Hasselblad Foundation, 2006. ISBN 3-7757-1917-2.
  • David Goldblatt: Südafrikanische Fotografien 1952–2006. Winterthur: Christoph Merian Verlag, 2007. ISBN 3-85616-294-1. Template:De icon
  • Intersections Intersected. Porto: Civilização Editoria; Fundação Serralves, 2008. ISBN 972-739-201-6. With text by Ulrich Loock and Ivor Powell. Template:En icon
  • Intersecções intersectadas. Porto: Civilização Editoria; Fundação Serralves, 2008. ISBN 972-739-200-8, ISBN 972-26-2765-1. With text by Ulrich Loock and Ivor Powell. Template:Pt icon
  • In Boksburg. Books on Books 7. New York: Errata Editions, 2010. ISBN 1-935004-12-3. Template:En icon A reduced-size facsimile of the 1982 book, with an essay by Joanna Lehan.
  • Kith Kin & Khaya: South African Photographs. Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, 2010. ISBN 0-9869749-0-0, ISBN 0-9869749-1-9. Template:En icon Catalogue of the exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York, 2010, and at the South African Jewish Museum, Cape Town, 2010–2011.
  • TJ / Double Negative: Johannesburg Photographs 1948–2010. Cape Town: Umuzi, 2010. ISBN 1-4152-0128-5. Contrasto Due, 2011. ISBN 88-6965-218-1. Template:En icon Two books in a box: TJ is a book of photographs by Goldblatt, Double Negative a novel by Ivan Vladislavić. (Best Photography Book, Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Awards 2011)
  • TJ / Johannesburg fotografie 1948–2010 / Doppia negazione. With Ivan Vladislavic. Contrasto, 2010. ISBN 978-88-6965-262-2. Template:It icon
  • TJ. Arles: Actes Sud, 2011. ISBN 88-6965-271-8. Template:Fr icon
  • David Goldblatt, Photographers' References, 2014. ISBN 978-2-9543839-1-0 Template:En icon. An in depth interview led by Baptiste Lignel.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2
  • Fietas. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, 2009.[50]
  • In the time of AIDS. Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, 2009.[51]
  • In Boksburg. Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, February–April 2009.[52]
  • Some Afrikaners revisited. Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, 2009.[47]
  • Particulars. Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, April–June 2010.[53]
  • South African Photographs: David Goldblatt. Jewish Museum, New York, May–September 2010.[47]
  • Kith, Kin & Kaya. South African Jewish Museum, Cape Town, 2010.[47]
  • TJ: Some things old, some things new and some much the same. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, October–November 2010.[54]
  • 'TJ', 1948–2010. Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, January–April 2011.[55][56]
  • Selected works. Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, January–February 2011.[57]

Selected group exhibitions

2

Awards (selected)

Collections (selected)

Goldblatt's work is held in the following collections:

References

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  6. ^ a b c d e f g h "David Goldblatt: Biography", Goodman Gallery, 15 October 2010. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
  7. ^ List of exhibitions, 1977–1999, Amber/Side. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
  8. ^ "David Goldblatt: Photographs from South Africa", MoMA. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
  9. ^ Kathryn Smith, "David Goldblatt's 'Structures' at the JAG", in November 1999 reviews archive, Artthrob. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
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  31. ^ Exhibition notice, art49.com. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
  32. ^ Sean O'Hagan, "Life through thick and thin", The Guardian, 16 July 2006. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
  33. ^ Miriam Rosen, "Rencontres d'Arles: Various venues", Artforum, December 2006. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
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  35. ^ Exhibition notice, Hasselblad Center. Retrieved 17 February 2011.
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  50. ^ Exhibition notice, Goodman Gallery. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
  51. ^ Press release for "In the time of AIDS", undo.net, 1 April 2009. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
  52. ^ Exhibition notice for "In Boksburg", University of Cape Town. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
  53. ^ Review, DLK Collection, 2 June 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
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  56. ^ Exhibition notice, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson. Template:Fr icon Retrieved 25 February 2011.
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  83. ^ Description (with text by Goldblatt) of photographs related to asbestos and asbestos poisoning, 1999–2007. University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
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