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David Goldblatt: still an inspiration |
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Veteran South African photographer David Goldblatt was awarded the prestigious 2009 Henri Cartier-Bresson Award for TJ, his photography essay on Johannesburg. The award is given to a photographer of exceptional ability who has an established career and who has completed a significant body of work. As part of the distinction, an exhibition of David’s series of Johannesburg photographs from TJ will be featured at Henri Cartier-Bresson in 2010. TJ, which will be published later this year by Umuzi publishers, will contain not one, but two books: a large photo essay on Johannesburg by David and a smaller second book, Double Negative, a novel by South African writer Ivan Vladislavic. This duo-edition will be presented as a luxury box-set. David began his fulltime photographic career in 1963, focussing mainly on South African society. His images have featured in galleries around the world. His retrospective exhibition, David Goldblatt 51 Years, was seen in New York, Oxford, Rotterdam, Munich, Brussels, Lisbon, Barcelona and Johannesburg. In 2004 his limited edition book, Particulars, won best photography book at the Rencontres d’Arles festival in France. In 2006 he received the Hasselblad Foundation International Award for Photography. In December The Callsheet reported that David was awarded a Visual Art lifetime achievement award from the Arts and Culture (ACT) Awards. He wasn’t able to receive the prize because he was out shooting. David is eighty years old this year and as inspiring as ever. His photographic essay, Intersections Intersected, recently completed its run at the New Museum in New York, U.S.A. Sally Fink | |||
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