Life Through the Lens

South Africa

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44 min

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2014

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David Goldblatt selects 20 career-defining photos that open a window onto South Africa's conflicted history.

Did you know?

David Goldblatt (1930-2018) photographed the people, landscapes and structures of South Africa for over seventy years.

In 1988, he was the first South African to be given a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1989, he founded the Market Photography Workshop in Johannesburg.

Goldblatt received the 2006 Hasselblad Award, the 2009 Henri Cartier-Bresson Award and the 2013 ICP Infinity Award, among other accolades.

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