Alejandra F.
2A
David Goldblatt was born in the year 1930, in Randfontein,
South Africa. Randfontein was a gold mining town in western Gauteng, South
Africa. Being born the color that he is he was able to go through Africa as he
pleased. David wanted to show both black and white South Africans how bad
Africa was. He hoped to let people there see for themselves how much they’re
hurting each other through his photographs. He was the first South African to
present a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
During his lifetime he won many awards for his achievements. David was son of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants,
was growing up in a racist anti-Semitic South Africa. He has had 20 solo
exhibitions. At this moment his photographs are now being recognized in an exhibition
at The Jewish Museum in New York City. In the late 1990s, Goldblatt began his work about blue
asbestos mining and the resulting disease and death. Today David Goldblatt is selling and exposing his phototgraphs.
Video on David Goldblatt:
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"David Goldblatt | International Center of
Photography." David Goldblatt | International Center of Photography. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 18 Dec. 2013.
<http://www.icp.org/support-icp/infinity-awards/david-goldblatt>.
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"David Goldblatt: The Colors of South
Africa." Artinfo. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Dec. 2013.
<http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1592/david-goldblatt-the-colors-of-south-africa/>.
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O'Neill, Claire. "David Goldblatt's View On
South Africa." NPR. NPR, n.d. Web. 18 Dec. 2013.
<http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/04/16/126046986/goldblatt>.
I really love photography so this essay was quite interesting to me. I know that pictures are very powerful; sometimes even more powerful than words. I really like how you include the name of the museum and the state it is in. I also like how you explained the environment of the place he was born in. One thing that can help improve the essay is to list some of his famous photos or maybe paint a visual of what they look like using words. I’m interested in how the people of South Africa reacted. Did they get touched by it? Did they get mad? Did they like it?
ReplyDeleteThe photography by this man is very powerful. A picture is worth a thousand words, and I think that the photographer gave us a prime example of that. You were very descriptive in your summary, which I think was very important in understanding his life. I also liked how you told a story about his mining days. However, one thing that you could have improved on is to actually reference the art and attempt to explain them more vividly to us. One question that I have is how did this art affect the people of South Africa? Some people may have been offended by how it was referencing South Africa.
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