David Goldblatt

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…

“Johannesburg is a fragmented city. It is not a place of smoothly integrated parts. Unsurprisingly, the people of its fragments, which are severely divided by class, culture and, in particu…

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The founding of the Voortrekkers coincided with the growth of Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa, then a member of the British Commonwealth. In some ways it was an Afrikaans-language alternative to the largely English-speaking Boy Scout movement, with its British heritage. The original concept of a youth movement amongst Afrikaners was formulated by Dr. C.F. Visser in 1913 in Bloemfontein. Dr. Visser appealed to the directors of the Boy Scout Movement (founded in 1907) to allow the…

This South Africa jersey, modelled after the 1996 African Cup of Nations-winning kit, is a late contender for best of the year.

"I seem to have an innate propensity which has been fed by life experiences and heightened by the kind of hyper-awareness that photography sometimes enables and demands..." "My first awareness of a bodily particular that I can recall was of the bulges made by the flattened flesh of my inner th

Since its inception over thirty years ago, Howard Greenberg Gallery has built a vast and ever-changing collection of some of the most important photographs in the medium. The Gallery's collection acts as a living history of photography, offering genres and styles from Pictorialism to Modernism, in addition to contemporary photography and images conceived for industry, advertising, and fashion. Maintaining diverse and extensive holdings of photographic prints, the gallery includes such…

Posts about David Goldblatt written by Dr Marcus Bunyan

David Goldblatt (Sudáfrica, 1930) ha retratado el cambiante paisaje político de su país durante décadas, explorando la intersección entre ...

David Goldblatt

Photos and text copyright John Edwin Mason, 1996-2017

Goldblatt, David: Woman going to the trading store holding money under her blanket, near Flagstaff, Transkei (Mujer de camino al almacén comercial sosteniendo dinero bajo la manta, cerca de Flagstaff, Transkei)

Posts about David Goldblatt Eyesight testing at the Vosloorus Eye Clinic of the Boksburg Lions Club written by Dr Marcus Bunyan