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David Goldblatt

1930–2018

Couple on a Sunday Afternoon. Zoo Lake, Johannesburg 1975, printed 2013
© David Goldblatt
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Biography

David Goldblatt HonFRPS (29 November 1930 – 25 June 2018) was a South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the apartheid period. After apartheid's end, he concentrated more on the country's landscapes. Goldblatt's body of work was distinct from that of other anti-apartheid artists in that he photographed issues that went beyond the violent events of apartheid and reflected the conditions that led up to them. His forms of protest have a subtlety that traditional documentary photographs may lack; Goldblatt said, "[M]y dispassion was an attitude in which I tried to avoid easy judgments.... This resulted in a photography that appeared to be disengaged and apolitical, but which was in fact the opposite." Goldblatt also wrote journal articles and books on aesthetics, architecture, and structural analysis.

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  • Woman on a Bench, Joubert Park, Johannesburg

    David Goldblatt
    1975, printed 2001
  • Stairway to a storeroom, probably made by slaves in 1781. Meerlust wine farm, near Stellenbosch, Cape. 24 November 1990

    David Goldblatt
    1990
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  • The destruction of District Six under the Group Areas Act. Cape Town, Cape. 5 May 1982

    David Goldblatt
    1982
  • Dutch Reformed Church, inaugurated on 31 July 1966. Op-die-Berg, Koue Bokkeveld, Cape. 23 May 1987

    David Goldblatt
    1987
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  • House near Phuthaditjhaba. Qwa Qwa. 1 May 1989

    David Goldblatt
    1989
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  • The place to which the government wanted the people of Oukasie to move. Letlhabile Removal Camp, Transvaal. 30 November 1986

    David Goldblatt
    1986
  • Die Heldeakker, The Heroes’ Acre: cemetery for White members of the security forces killed in ‘The Total Onslaught’. Ventersdorp, Transvaal. 1 November 1986

    David Goldblatt
    1986
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  • Man Sleeping. Joubert Park, Johannesburg

    David Goldblatt
    1975, printed 2013
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