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Jun 26, 2018 · With half of his building destroyed under the Apartheid regulation that had declared this suburb "White", Hassimia Sahib, butcher, continued trading and refused to move until given the site he...
Jun 27, 2018 · Although he grew up in a time that was shaped by apartheid, his work went beyond the surface. He found the human in the inhuman social landscape. Going home: Marabastad-Waterval route: for most...
- Paul Weinberg
Jun 26, 2018 · Goldblatt’s caption explains why those on the buses look as if they have been drugged or knocked out cold, slumping in seats: “After a day’s work they take the bus from Pretoria to KwaNdebele.
David Goldblatt, Incomplete houses, part of a stalled municipal development of 1000 houses. The funding allocation was made in 1998, building started in 2003.
- Fietas Unbuilt
- The Politics of Presence
- Blue-Asbestos Mining
- “Fuck-All Landscapes”
The Johannesburg suburb officially named Pageview was once a multi-racial neighborhood with a substantial Indian population, colloquially known as Fietas after the “fitters” for men’s clothing who traded in the area. But in 1957, when the Group Areas Act of 1950 was consolidated, non-white residents began receiving eviction notices; in 1962, Fietas...
The impact of such captioning phrases can be disarming, leading the viewer to consider difficult truths — the painful reality of the scenes depicted and the impossibility, too, of fully grasping such scenes’ significance. Goldblatt’s pairings of word and image emphasize the limitations of both, their inability to redeem a difficult situation. It wa...
Just as issues of gender and power are sometimes glossed over in discussions of Goldblatt’s art, appraisals that seek to situate his oeuvre in a global context are outweighed in the literature by a focus on the geopolitical history of South Africa. This is due in part to the fact that even though his images circulate in the international art market...
In the early 2000s, after the Wittenoom series, Goldblatt began to explore not only the possibilities of color but also the technical potential of the digital medium. This transition from film to digital led, as Michael Stevenson observes, to a “whole-hearted embrace of harsh South African light, a light that is intense and unrelenting.” 30At the s...
- Ella Mudie
- 2019
Jun 25, 2018 · 1 / 5. The South African photographer David Goldblatt has died aged 87. The Randfontein-born artist, who began photographing in 1948, was one of South Africa's leading documentarians of the...
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Jun 25, 2018 · Acclaimed South African photographer David Goldblatt has died at the age of 87 at his home in the main city, Johannesburg. Fans describe his talent as a photographer who "chronicled...
