David Goldblatt HonFRPS (29 November 1930 – 25 June 2018) was a South African

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noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of

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.Weinberg, Paul.
David Goldblatt: Photographer Who Found the Human in an Inhuman Social Landscape
" The Conversation, 18 May 2019. After apartheid had ended he concentrated more on the country's landscapes. What differentiates Goldblatt's body of work from those of other anti-apartheid artists is 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: " 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." He has numerous publications to his name.

Early life

Goldblatt was born in

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, and was the youngest of the three sons of Eli and Olga Goldblatt. His grandparents arrived in

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from Lithuania around 1893, having fled the persecution of Jews there. Okwui Enwezor. "Matter and consciousness: An insistent gaze from a not disinterested photographer", ''Fifty-One Years: David Goldblatt'' (Barcelona: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2001), 13–43. Goldblatt's father ran a clothing store, where his mother worked as a typist for a clothing company, which Goldblatt speculated may have been how they met.Genzlinger, Neil.
David Goldblatt, Acclaimed South African Photographer, Dies at 87
, ''The New York Times'', 25 June 2018. Goldblatt attended Krugersdorp High School, and graduated from the

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with a degree in commerce.

Photography

Goldblatt began photographing when he was a teenager. He got his first camera from his father, who bought it from Goldblatt's brother, who had brought home a damaged

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Contax camera when he came back from serving in

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. Though his first photographs were not groundbreaking, he enlisted help from a

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: "He would drape several cameras around my neck so that I looked very professional, and my job was to ensure that no guest with a good camera got a good picture . . . I would have to bump or walk in front of them at the critical moment so that my boss was the only person who ended up with good photographs.” A couple years later in 1963, as his skill developed, he sold the clothing shop that he had taken over on the death of his father in 1962, and became a full-time photographer. He documented developments in South Africa through the period of

until it ended in the 1990s. However he was still making photographs up until his death in 2018. Throughout his years as a photographer, Goldblatt never saw himself as an artist, and he was uncomfortable being seen as one. Many agree that he was a

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more than he was an artist. Goldblatt had an innovative approach to documentary photography. He made a life of photographing the issues that went beyond the events of

and documented the conditions that led to them. Goldblatt was never comfortable with the fine art world. He went to exhibition openings but secretly hated the attention they threw upon him. He got around the label of artist by simply calling himself a photographer. He said: "I am a self-appointed observer and critic of the society into which I was born, with a tendency to giving recognition to what is overlooked or unseen." Goldblatt's photography was not obviously politically charged. He claimed he was not an activist, unlike the majority of his friends and other photographers during this time. He in turn was looked down upon and disrespected for not involving himself in activism, on which he commented: "I wasn't prepared to compromise what I regarded as my particular needs." Instead of producing photographs which might "attempt to pass judgment," Goldblatt chose to "show the complexity of a situation." Depictions of the everyday are frequent in Goldblatt's work. Instead of photographing the explicit violence of Apartheid South Africa, he preferred to document the violence of this era which exhibited itself in ordinary life: "I shun violence. And I wouldn't know how to handle it if I was a photographer in a violent scene." During Apartheid, Goldblatt in his work ''The Transported of KwaNdebele'' documented the excruciatingly long and uncomfortable twice-daily bus journeys of black workers who lived in the segregated "homelands" northeast of Pretoria. The conditions had not changed that much for workers by 2007: "The bulk of people who live there still have to travel to Pretoria by road. It's still a very long commute for them every day – two to eight hours. . . . It will take generations to undo the consequences of Apartheid." In the 1970s, Goldblatt documented one of the many injustices of the Apartheid South African government in a series of photographs of houses, shops and other types of architecture in the Johannesburg suburb, Pageview. The Group Areas Act of 1950 displaced much of the local population in favor of white South Africans. Goldblatt documented the local population's demonstrations of resistance and determination through their persistent occupation of their homes and businesses—regardless of the damage done. After apartheid, Goldblatt continued to photograph within South Africa, particularly its landscapes. In the work Goldblatt created during apartheid he never photographed in colour. Goldblatt observed that: "the use of colour during apartheid would have been inappropriate. It would have enhanced the beautiful and the personal, whereas black and white photographs to more effectively documented the external dramatic contradictions that defined this earlier period." In the 1990s he began working in colour, in a sense adapting to the

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. "I’ve found the venture into color quite exciting . . . largely because new technology has enabled me to work with color on the computer as I have done with black and white in the darkroom." It was only after working on a project involving blue asbestos in north-western Australia, and "the resulting disease and death", that he "got hooked on doing work in color ecauseYou can’t make it blue in black and white." This was coupled with new developments in 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 photography did he choose to explore this extensively.

Collections and publications

Goldblatt's work is held in major museum collections worldwide. Interest in Goldblatt's work increased significantly after a travelling exhibition of 51 years of his work (

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, 2001), and the eleventh '' Documenta'' ( Kassel, 2002). The former, which opened in the AXA Gallery in New York in 2001, offered an overview of Goldblatt's photographic oeuvre from 1948 to 1999. At ''Documenta'', two projects were shown: black-and-white work depicting life in the middle-class white community of

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in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as examples of later colour work from the series ''Johannesburg Intersections.'' Goldblatt's 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. Goldblatt has written extensively on architecture and the deeper meaning contained within the buildings we occupy.

Influences

Goldblatt was inspired by photography in magazines such as ''

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'', '' Look'' and ''

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'', which helped him with things such as captioning his photographs. Goldblatt also cited writers and visual artists as his major influences, among them

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, Guy Tillim,

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, Nadine Gordimer,

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, Ivan Vladislavic and playwright Barney Simon. Herman Charles Bosman specifically helped inspire Goldblatt in his second photo essay titled ''The South African Tatler''. Goldblatt helped influence the work of the photographer

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as they studied together during the time of

. Together they helped reinvent documentary and conceptual modes of photography, which led them to prominence and influence within documentary photography.

Later life

After founding the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg in 1989, Goldblatt turned no photographer, struggling or famous, away from his door. He was always accessible to everyone no matter what, even in his later life. Goldblatt died on 25 June 2018 in Johannesburg from cancer. He had created photographs up until his death. He was survived by his wife, Lily Goldblatt, children Steven, Brenda, and Ronnie, and two grandchildren.

Publications

* ''On the Mines.'' With Nadine Gordimer. Cape Town: C Struik, 1973. . * ''Göttingen'':

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, 2012. . * ''Some Afrikaners Photographed.'' Johannesburg: Murray Crawford, 1975. * ''Cape Dutch Homesteads.'' With Margaret Courtney-Clark and John Kench. Cape Town: C Struik, 1981. . * ''In Boksburg.'' Cape Town: The Gallery Press, 1982. . * ''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. * ''Lifetimes: Under Apartheid.'' With Nadine Gordimer. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1986. . London: Cape, 1986. . * ''South Africa.'' London: The Photographers' Gallery, 1986. . Small exhibition catalogue. * ''The Transported of KwaNdebele: A South African Odyssey.'' With Brenda Goldblatt and Phillip van Niekerk. New York: Aperture Books, 1989. , . * ''South Africa: The Structure of Things Then.'' Cape Town: Oxford University Press 1998. . New York: Monacelli, 1998. . With an essay by Neville Dubow. * ''David Goldblatt.'' Phaidon 55. London: Phaidon, 2001. . With text by Lesley Lawson. * ''David Goldblatt Fifty-One Years.'' Barcelona: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2001. . * ''Particulars.'' Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, 2003. . ("Prix du Livre ", XVIe Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie

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2004) * ''David Goldblatt – Intersections.'' Munich: Prestel, 2005. . * ''David Goldblatt – Photographs.'' Rome: Contrasto, 2006. . * ''David Goldblatt – Some Afrikaners Revisited.'' With

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and Ivor Powell. Cape Town: Umuzi, 2007. (paper), (hard). Revised and augmented edition of ''Some Afrikaners Photographed'' (1975). * ''David Goldblatt: Photographs: Hasselblad Award 2006.'' Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz; Gothenburg:

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, 2006. . * ''David Goldblatt: Südafrikanische Fotografien 1952–2006.'' Winterthur: Christoph Merian Verlag, 2007. . * ''Intersections Intersected.'' Porto: Civilização Editoria; Fundação Serralves, 2008. . With text by Ulrich Loock and Ivor Powell. * ''Intersecções intersectadas.'' Porto: Civilização Editoria; Fundação Serralves, 2008. , . With text by Ulrich Loock and Ivor Powell. * ''In Boksburg.'' Books on Books 7. New York: Errata Editions, 2010. . A reduced-size facsimile of the 1982 book, with an essay by Joanna Lehan. * ''Kith Kin & Khaya: South African Photographs.'' Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, 2010. , . Catalogue of the exhibition at the

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, 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. . Contrasto Due, 2011. . 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. . * ''TJ.'' Arles: Actes Sud, 2011. . * ''David Goldblatt'', Photographers' References, 2014. . An in depth interview led by Baptiste Lignel. * ''Regarding Intersections.'' Göttingen: Steidl, 2014. . With an essay by Michael Stevenson and an interview by Mark Haworth-Booth. Colour photographs in South Africa made between 2002 and 2011. * ''Structures of Dominion and Democracy.'' Göttingen: Steidl, 2018. Edited by Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska. . A selective retrospective.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*''David Goldblatt''.

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, London, 1974.David Goldblatt: Biography
, Goodman Gallery, 15 October 2010. Retrieved 16 February 2011. *''David Goldblatt''.

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, Melbourne, 1975. *Photography Place, Sydney, 1975. *''David Goldblatt''. Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa, 1977. *''David Goldblatt''. Market Theatre galleries, Johannesburg, 1978. *

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, 1983. *Pretoria Art Gallery, Pretoria, 1983. *''David Goldblatt''.

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, Cape Town, 1983. *''David Goldblatt''. Side Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1985. *''David Goldblatt''. Photographers' Gallery, London, 1986. *''Photographs from South Africa''.

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, New York, 1998. *''David Goldblatt''. Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, 1998. *''David Goldblatt''.

, Cape Town, 1999. *''Structures''. Johannesburg Art Gallery, to November 1999. *''In Boksburg''. Krings-Ernst Galerie, Cologne, October 2001 – January 2002.Index page
Kunstforum. Retrieved 1 March 2011. *''Fifty-One Years,'' Axa Gallery, New York, 2001;''Fifty-One Years: David Goldblatt'' (Barcelona: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2001), 456. Centro Cultural de Belém, Belém, Lisbon, 2002–2003; Johannesburg Art Gallery, 2005; MACBA, Barcelona (organiser), February–May 2002; Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2002;Exhibition notice
, Witte de With. Retrieved 20 February 2011.

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, Oxford, February–March 2003; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, April–June 2003; Lenbachhaus, Munich, July–November 2003; Bensusan Museum and Library of Photography, Johannesburg, July–November 2004. *Krings-Ernst Galerie, Cologne, 2002. *''Mostly unseen''. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, 2002.David Goldblatt
, PhotoEphemera, 12 February 2009. Retrieved 20 February 2011. *''Intersections''. Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, October 2003;Sean O'Toole,

, Artthrob, December 2003. Retrieved 25 February 2011. Michael Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, 2005. museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf, June–August 2005;David Goldblatt. Intersections
", press release (DOC file). Museum kunst palast. Retrieved 13 February 2011. Camera Austria, Graz, November 2005 – February 2006. Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, March–May 2007;

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, July–August 2007. *''Asbestos''. Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, October 2003. *''Particulars & Rural South Africa''. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, October–November 2003.Goodman Gallery listings
, photography-now.com. Retrieved 25 February 2011. *Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, 2004. *''David Goldblatt''. Galerie des Franciscains, Le Grand Café, Centre d'art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, November–December 2004.Exhibition notices
for le Grand Café, e-flux, 5 November 2004. Retrieved 25 February 2011. *''David Goldblatt''. Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, May–July 2005. *''David Goldblatt''. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, 2005. *

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, Eglise Sainte-Anne, Arles, 2006. *''Some Afrikaners Revisited''. Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, October–November 2006. *''Hasselblad Award Winner 2006''. Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, November 2006 – January 2007. *''Hasselblad Award 2006''. Fotografins Hus, Stockholm, February–March 2007. *''Photographs''. Forma, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan, June–August 2007. *''Südafrikanische Fotografien 1952–2006''.

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, Winterthur, March–May 2007. *''Selected works''. Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, May–June 2007. Showing the series ''Particulars'' *''Winner of Hasselblad Award 2006''. Brandts Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, September–November 2007. *''David Goldblatt – Photographs of the last decade''. Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, 2008. *''David Goldblatt''. Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, October–December 2008. *''David Goldblatt''. Museu de Arte Contemporânea (

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), Porto, 2008. *''Joburg''. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, 2008. *''David Goldblatt''. Västeras Konstmuseum, Västerås, 2008. *''Intersections Intersected''. Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, 2008;

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, Liverpool, December 2008 – February 2009; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, July–October 2009;David Goldblatt
Goodman Gallery. Retrieved 15 February 2011.

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, Malmö, February–May 2009; University Museum of Contemporary Art,

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, 2011. *''Fietas''. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, 2009. *''In the time of AIDS''. Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, 2009. *''In Boksburg''. Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, February–April 2009. *''Some Afrikaners revisited''. Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, 2009. *''Particulars''. Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, April–June 2010. *''South African Photographs: David Goldblatt''.

, New York, May–September 2010. *''Kith, Kin & Kaya''. South African Jewish Museum, Cape Town, 2010. *''TJ: Some things old, some things new and some much the same''. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, October–November 2010. *TJ', 1948–2010''.

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, Paris, January–April 2011. *''Selected works''. Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, January–February 2011. *''On the Mines''. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, October–December 2012. *''Structures of Dominion & Democracy''. Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, November–December 2014. *''New Pictures 10: David Goldblatt, Structures of Dominion and Democracy''. Minneapolis Institute of Art, August 2014 – February 2015. *''David Goldblatt''.

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, Paris, February–May 2018. *''David Goldblatt Photographs 1948 – 2018''.

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, Sydney, October 2018 – March 2019. *''On The Mines''. The Norval Foundation, Cape Town, February–August 2019. *''David Goldblatt , Johannesburg 1948 – 2018''. Goodman Gallery, London, June–August 2020. *''David Goldblatt Strange Instrument''.

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, New York, February–March 2021. *''David Goldblatt Markers of Presence''. Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, June–July 2021.

Group exhibitions

*''South Africa: the Cordoned Heart'', South Africa and the USA, 1986. *Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg, 1995. *Contemporary Art from South Africa,

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, Berlin, 1996. *''In/Sight, African Photographers, 1940 to the Present''.

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, New York, 1996. *''Blank Architecture, Apartheid and After''. Rotterdam and Berlin, 1998. *''Home''.

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, Perth, 2000. *''Rhizomes of Memory, Three South African Photographers''. With George Hallett and

. Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, 2000. *''Eye-Africa, Revue Noir''. Cape Town, Europe and the USA, 2000. *''The Short Century – Befreiungsbewegungen in Afrika''. Villa Stuck, Munich, 2001. *Haus der Kulturen der Welt im Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2001. * Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2001. * P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2001. *''Head North''. Bildmuseet, Umeå, 2001. * documenta 11. Kassel, 2002. *Shock.

, Perth, 2002. *''Strangers: The first ICP triennial of photography and video''.

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, New York, September–November 2003. *''Citigroup Photography Prize 2004''.

, London, January–March 2004. With Robert Adams,

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. *''Citigroup Photography Prize 2004''. museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf, May–August 2004. *''Fotografie aus Südafrika''. Galerie Christine König,

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. *''History, Memory, Society''. With

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, London, 2004. *''Eye Spy: Photography from the Permanent Collection''. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, USA, September 2004 – January 2005.Julia Spalding, "More than meets the eye",
Photographic Memories
" ''San Diego Magazine,'' October 2004. Retrieved 18 February 2011. *''Faces in the Crowd – Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today''.

Whitechapel Art Gallery The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery in Whitechapel on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The original building, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, opened in 1901 as one of the ...

, London, 2004–2005.Faces in the Crowd
, Kunstaspekte.de. Retrieved 18 February 2011. *''Faces in the Crowd – Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today''. Museo d’Arte Contemporanea,

Castello di Rivoli The Castle of Rivoli is a former Residence of the Royal House of Savoy in Rivoli ( Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy). It is currently home to the Castello di Rivoli – Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, the museum of contemporary art of Turin. In 19 ...

, Turin, 2005. *''Unsettled: 8 South African photographers''. National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, November 2004 – February 2005. *''Afrika Remix. Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents''. museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf, July–November 2004. *''Africa Remix''.

Hayward Gallery The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre in central London, England and part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings (the R ...

, London, February–April 2005. *''Africa Remix: l'Art contemporain d'un continent''. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, May–August 2005. *''Africa Remix''.

Mori Art Museum The is a contemporary art museum founded by the real estate developer Minoru Mori (1934–2012) in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in the Roppongi Hills complex both of which he built in Tokyo, Japan. The exterior architect of the museum's ga ...

, Tokyo, May–August 2006. *''Africa Remix''.

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, Stockholm, October 2006 – January 2007 * documenta 12. Kassel, June–September 2007. *''South African Photography 1950–2010''.

, 2010. *29th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, September–December 2010. With

Moshekwa Langa Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) is a South African visual artist whose work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, video, and photography. Biography Moshekwa Langa was born in South Africa in 1975. He began studying art history around ...

and

Kendell Geers Jacobus Hermanus Pieters Geers, commonly known as Kendell Geers, is a South African conceptual artist. Geers lives and works in Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text ...

. *54th

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

, ILLUMInations, 2011. *An exhibition of Goldblatt's photographs from the collection held by the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

shown alongside group exhibition ''Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography,'' Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011. *''Appropriated Landscapes: Contemporary African Art from the Walther Collection'', Neu-Ulm, Germany, 2011–2012. *Revolution vs Revolution,

Beirut Art Center Beirut Art Center is a space for exhibiting contemporary art in Beirut, Lebanon History Beirut Art Center opened to public in January 2009. It is managed as a non-profit organization whose founders and executive board members were Sandra Daghe ...

, 2012. *''South Africa in Apartheid and After'',

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, with Ernest Cole, Billy Monk. December 2012 – March 2013. *''Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s'', Barbican Centre, London, September 2012 – January 2013. *''C-16'', Goodman Gallery, Cape Town. December–February 2014. *''Other People's Memories'', Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg. January–February 2015. *''New Revolutions: Goodman Gallery at 50'', Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg. June–July 2016. *''the silences between'', Goodman Gallery, Cape Town. August–September 2017. *''Narrative Means'', Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg. June–July 2018.

Awards

*1987: Hallmark Fellow at the International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA),

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*1992: Gahan Fellow in Photography at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

*1995: Camera Austria Award of the City of Graz for Contemporary Photography *2001: Honorary Doctor in Fine Arts,

University of Cape Town The University of Cape Town (UCT) ( af, Universiteit van Kaapstad, xh, Yunibesithi ya yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university statu ...

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*2010:

Lucie Award The Lucie Awards is an annual event honoring achievements in photography, founded in 2003 by Hossein Farmani. The Lucie Awards is an annual gala ceremony presented by the Lucie Foundation (a 501 (c)3 non-profit charitable organization), honoring ...

, Lifetime Achievement Award, Lucie Foundation2010 honoree: David Goldblatt: Lifetime achievement
", Lucie Awards. Retrieved 14 February 2011. *2011:

Order of Ikhamanga The Order of Ikhamanga is a South African honour. It was instituted on 30 November 2003 and is granted by the President of South Africa for achievements in arts, culture, literature, music, journalism, and sports (which were initially recognised b ...

(Silver) (awarded, but declined by Goldblatt in protest over the

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) *2011: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts San Francisco Art Institute *2013: Infinity Award: Cornell Capa Award for Lifetime Achievement,

, New York City

Collections

Goldblatt's work is held in the following permanent public collections: *

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, Johannesburg *

, Cape Town *

University of South Africa The University of South Africa (UNISA), known colloquially as Unisa, is the largest university system in South Africa by enrollment. It attracts a third of all higher education students in South Africa. Through various colleges and affiliates, U ...

, Pretoria *

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, Braamfontein, Johannesburg * Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL *

Museum Kunstpalast The Kunstpalast, formerly Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf is an art museum in Düsseldorf. History The roots of the museum go back around 300 years. In 1932, the collection of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Academy of Art) was housed in the Kunstmus ...

, Düsseldorf *

, LondonExploring Photography: Photographers: David Goldblatt
,

. Retrieved 13 February 2011. * Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris * Fonds national d'art contemporain, Paris *

Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art ( ca, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, , MACBA) is a contemporary art museum situated in the Plaça dels Àngels, in El Raval, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The museum opened to the publ ...

, Barcelona *

, London * National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen *

, Melbourne *

, New York *

, San Francisco *

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* Getty Center,

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References

External links

*
David Goldblatt's View On South Africa
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