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PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Documenting Ordinary Scenes Of South Africa Then and Now by Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times), 24 August 2001
11 June 2019
David Goldblatt's photographs have borne witness since the late 1940's to life in his native South Africa. More than 150...
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Daily reflections by Virginia MacKenny, September 2002
11 June 2019
Day 1 Arrive in Kassel by train from Frankfurt and get off at the Wilhelmstrohebahnhof bestrewn with Documenta banners....
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'States of Emergence', at Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art by Sean O'Toole, November 2002
11 June 2019
'States of Emergence' is Johannesburg gallerist Warren Siebrits' coming of age. A former curator at the influential Ever...
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David Goldblatt: Intersections; Asbestos; Particulars by Sue Williamson, 1 - 25 October 2003
11 June 2019
Attempting to impose a working structure on a proposed new series of images which would take the photographer right acro...
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David Goldblatt: Intersections by Matt Damsker
11 June 2019
Published 2005 by Prestel. Essays by Christoph Danelzik-Bruggemann, Michael Stevenson, and an interview with the photogr...
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David Goldblatt: In the time of AIDS by Galeria Elba Benitez, 31 March 2009, Madrid
11 June 2019
In David Goldblatt’s second exhibition at the galería elba benítez the artist presents his “In the time of AIDS” suite, ...
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SAHO Intergenerational Dialogue Promotion
11 June 2019
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Intergenerational Dialogue, Ntokozo Moloi and Terrence Tryon (2/3) by Kyla Mc Nulty, 2017
11 June 2019
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Silent Cries from a Beloved Country by Ken Johnson, 20 August 2009
11 June 2019
Looking at the series of large color photographs called “In the Time of AIDS” by the South African David Goldblatt, you ...
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Photography David Goldblatt by Sean Jacobs, 1 September 2009
11 June 2019
Fred Ritchin (associate professor of photography and communications at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts an...
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Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
11 June 2019
For the last few weeks millions of fevered eyes have been fixed on South Africa, host to the World Cup, which ends next ...
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Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
11 June 2019
As a matter of crude shorthand, the South African photographer David Goldblatt might be described as his country’s Walke...
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Intergenerational Dialogue, Ntokozo Moloi and Terrence Tryon (3/3) by Kyla Mc Nulty, 2017
11 June 2019
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David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review by Claire Guillot, 25 January 2011
11 June 2019
One morning, in the middle-class suburb of Johannesburg where he lives, David Goldblatt found his camper van on bricks. ...
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South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
11 June 2019
Goldblatt, who turned 80 in November, is among the greatest of living documentary photographers. He won the Hasselblad A...
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