David Goldblatt | |
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Born | Randfontein, South Africa | 29 November 1930
Died | 25 June 2018 Johannesburg, South Africa | (aged 87)
Nationality | South African |
Occupation | Photographer |
Years active | 1948–2018 |
Notable work | On the Mines (1973), Some Afrikaners Photographed, (1975) The Structure of Things Then (1998) |
David Goldblatt (29 November 1930 – 25 June 2018) was a South African photographer. He was known for his photographs of South Africa during the period of apartheid[1] and more recently that country's landscapes. He called himself as a “self-appointed observer" and "critic of the society into which I was born.”[2]
Goldblatt died on 25 June 2018 in Johannesburg from skin cancer, aged 87.[3][4]