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Event: David Goldblatt
Some Afrikaners Revisited Exhibition
Venue: The Main Building at Oliewenhuis Art Museum
Period: 21 October 2009 – 10 January 2010

Oliewenhuis Art Museum is exhibiting David Goldblatt’s Some Afrikaners Revisited photography, an expanded view of a body of work first published in 1975 as Some Afrikaners Photographed.

Between 1961 and 1968 Goldblatt photographed Afrikaners, initially around small-holdings near Randfontein, next in the Marico Bushveld and then more generally. Some of the black and white photographs were reproduced in specialist magazines, but it took Goldblatt until 1975 to find a publisher for the book that he envisaged – today a much-sought-after collector’s item.

The exhibition and the new book contain all but one of the photographs reproduced in the 1975 book (some that were previously cropped are now shown in their entirety), as well as 20 additional photographs taken at the same time. The book, published by Umuzi, has been available since 2007.

Goldblatt has been critically exploring South African society through his photographs for more than half a century, and has received international recognition for his work. He was the first South African to be given a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1998. His retrospective, David Goldblatt: Fifty-one years, toured galleries and museums in New York, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Lisbon, Oxford, Brussels, Munich and Johannesburg between 2001 and 2005. In July 2006 his work was the subject of a retrospective at the Rencontres festival in Arles, France. In 2006 he was awarded the Hasselblad Award in recognition of his lifelong achievements. This award was presented in Göteborg, Sweden, on 25 November 2006. On 16 June 2009 he was awarded the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award for his project “TJ”, a work in progress about the city of Johannesburg.

David Goldblatt will present a walkabout of his exhibition on Wednesday, 21 October 2009 at 11:00. Photography students and anyone interested in documentary photography must attend this special walkabout.

For more information please contact Oliewenhuis Art Museum on 051 447 9609 or oliewen@nasmus.co.za
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