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David Goldblatt
1930–2018 · South African · Based in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 2018)
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
- Black-and-White Photography
- Documentary Photography
David Goldblatt spent more than six decades photographing South African society, architecture, labor and landscape under and after apartheid. His work is distinguished by slow observation, precise description and resistance to sensational imagery.
Photography
Gallery Representation
Artist Films
David Goldblatt in "Johannesburg" - Season 9 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21
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Major Works
- 1960s–70sOn the Mines
- 1960s–70sSome Afrikaners Photographed
- 1983–84The Transported of KwaNdebele
- 1980s–2010sStructures of Dominion and Democracy
- 1979–80In Boksburg
- 1975Particulars
- 2008 onwardEx-Offenders at the Scene of Crime
- 1948–2010TJ / Johannesburg photographs
- 2000sIntersections
- 1960s–2010sSouth African Landscape photographs
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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