David Goldblatt (1930)

David Goldblatt has been photographing and documenting South African society for over 50 years. Born in Randfontein in 1930 to parents who came to South Africa to escape the persecution of Lithuanian Jews in 1890, he was simultaneously part of privileged white society and a victim of religious persecution and alienation. Motivated by his contradictory position in South African society, Goldblatt began photographing this society, and in 1963 decided to devote all of this time to photography…

David Goldblatt A plot-holder with the daughter of a servant, Wheatlands, Randfontein, September 1962 silver gelatin print on fiber-pressed paper Courtesy of David Goldblatt and the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

David Goldblatt salutes a photographer whose work speaks fluently about people and events

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Urbanisme, Architecture et le monde politique

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Pictures from South African photographer David Goldblatt's solo exhibition TJ at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg: Some things old, some things new and some much the same

In 1987, David Goldblatt (b.1930) gave 115 of his prints to the V&A, a generous gift which now forms the main part of the V&A’s Goldblatt collection.

David Goldblatt, Queen Monyeki in her kitchen, 1388A White City, Jabavu, Soweto, 1972

David Goldblatt

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