David Goldblatt South Africa
b.1930 - Present
David Goldblatt was born in 1930 in Randfontain in South Africa. His grandparents were Lithuanian Jews who emigrated from Europe to South Africa at the end of the 19th century. Goldblatt's interest in photography began during his years at secondary school and led in the 1950s to the publication of his first works in the magazines Life, Look and Picture Post. His main source of income remained his job in his father's firm, which made clothes for men, and he did not start working mainly as a photographer till his father died and the firm was sold. He then focussed more and more on his land's unhappy social, political and cultural conditions.
Works from this photographer, now 74 years old and living in Johannesburg, are in the South African National Gallery in Cape Town, in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has also published many books about his work.
Documenta11, Kassel, Germany
(Exhibition / Installation, 2002)
Group exhibition
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South A
(Exhibition / Installation, 2002)
Krings-Ernst Galerie Köln, Cologne, Germany
(Exhibition / Installation, 2002)
Rhizomes of Memory, Three South African Photographers, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
(Exhibition / Installation, 2001)
Group exhibition
The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Ill., USA. P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
(Exhibition / Installation, 2001)
Group exhibition
Museum d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
(Exhibition / Installation, 2001)
Axa Gallery, New York, USA
(Exhibition / Installation, 2001)
Blank_ Architecture, Apartheid and After, Rotterdam and Berlin, Netherlands and Germany
(Exhibition / Installation, 1998)
Group exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
(Exhibition / Installation, 1998)
Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
(Exhibition / Installation, 1998)
In/Sight, African Photographers, 1940 to the Present, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
(Exhibition / Installation, 1996)
Group exhibition
Contemporary Art from South Africa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
(Exhibition / Installation, 1996)
Group exhibition
1st Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa
(Exhibition / Installation, 1995)
Photographers' Gallery, London, Great Britain
(Exhibition / Installation, 1986)
Side Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Great Britain
(Exhibition / Installation, 1985)
SA National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
(Exhibition / Installation, 1983)
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
(Exhibition / Installation, 1983)
Pretoria Art Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa
(Exhibition / Installation, 1983)
Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa
(Exhibition / Installation, 1978)
Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
(Exhibition / Installation, 1977)
Photography Place, Sydney, Australia
(Exhibition / Installation, 1975)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
(Exhibition / Installation, 1975)
Photographers' Gallery, London, Great Britain
(Exhibition / Installation, 1974)
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