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Basic Data

David Goldblatt was a South African photographer best known for his critical visual essays documenting his homeland during and after apartheid.

  • Born: 29 November 1930
  • Place of birth: Randfontein, South Africa
  • Died: 25 June 2018
  • Nationality: South African
  • Studied at: University of the Witwatersrand
  • Era: Contemporary art

Exhibitions

  • 26.02.21 – 31.12.21 Helga de Alvear Collection – Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres.
  • 24.04.20 – 26.06.20 Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection – Perez Art Museum -PAMM, Miami.
  • 02.11.19 – 27.01.20 Mapping Worlds: Selected Works from the Scheryn Art Collection – Norval Foundation, Cape Town.
  • 15.10.17 - 21.01.18 Resident Alien. The Marin Karmitz Collection - La Maison Rouge, Paris.
  • 08.05.17 - 21.01.18 SERRALVES COLLECTION: 1960-1980 - Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto.

 

Awards

  • 1987: Hallmark Fellow at the Aspen Conference in Design, Aspen, Colorado.
  • 1992: Gahan Fellow in Photography at Harvard University.
  • 1995: Camera Austria Prize.
  • 2001: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Cape Town.
  • 2006: Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography.

 

Literature

  • David Goldblatt. Structures of dominion and democracyKarolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska, David Goldblatt, Göttingen 2018.
  • David Goldblatt. Südafrikanische Fotografien  1952 - 2006, Martin Parr (Publ.), Basel 2007.
  • David Goldblatt. Hasselblad Award 2006, David Goldblatt, Ostfildern 2006.

 

Collections

Germany

 

England

 

Denmark

 

Spain

 

USA

 

South Africa

 

 

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