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David Goldblatt
Goldblatt will receive an Honorary Doctorate in Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand in April 2008. His work is included on Make Art/Stop AIDS at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles (17 February - 15 June); Cities in Crisis: Photographs of the South African urban landscape at the FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg (10 April - 9 May), and he has a solo exhibition of his photographs of Johannesburg at the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (26 April - 17 May). He also has upcoming solo exhibitions at the Museu de Serralves in Porto, Portugal, in July 2008, and at Galerie Paul Andriesse in Amsterdam in October 2008.

LATEST EXHIBITION

Intersections Intersected (16 January - 1 March 2008)

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

New colour landscapes published in David Goldblatt: Hasselblad Award 2006
Some Afrikaners Revisited (24 October - 25 November 2006)
Intersections (Landscapes | In the time of Aids | Memorials | Municipal People) (7 February - 12 March 2005)
Intersections (1-25 October 2003)
Asbestos (1-25 October 2003)
Particulars (1-25 October 2003)
Southern African leaders (1982-1987)

PUBLICATIONS

Some Afrikaners Revisited (2006)
David Goldblatt: Hasselblad Award 2006 (2006)
David Goldblatt: Photographs (2006)
Intersections (2005)
Particulars (2003)

BIOGRAPHY
Born in Randfontein in 1930, Goldblatt has been documenting the changing political landscape of South Africa for more than five decades. His retrospective exhibition, David Goldblatt 51 Years, was seen in New York, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Lisbon, Oxford, Brussels, Munich and Johannesburg. His photographic essay South Africa: the Structure of Things Then was shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1998. He was included on Documenta 11 in 2002 and Documenta 12 in 2007, and on the travelling mega-exhibition Africa Remix (2004-2007). His limited edition book, Particulars, won the award for the best photography book at the Rencontres d'Arles festival, France, in 2004. He won the 2006 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. See hasselbladfoundation.org for citation (PDF format). Full CV