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| David Goldblatt signs the book at the "Rescued Lithuanian Jewish Child Tells About Shoah" exhibition |
D. Goldblatt is visiting Yudah Passow photography exhibition "Scots Jews. Identity, Belonging and the Future" |
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David Goldblatt, one of the most eminent South African photographers whose works are are being exhibited in the best museums and galleries around the world, visited Lithuania in the end of August, 2015. He came here with his wife and already grown-up children who were searching for their family roots, leading to Papilė.
The official meeting with David Goldblatt was orgnized at the Tolerance Center of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum on the 28th of August, 2015. It was moderated by Karina Simonson, who is a PhD researcher in art history and theory at Lithuanian Culture Research Institute and Vilnius Academy of Art. The main focus of her studies is South African Litvak photographers and their works.
Photographer of Litvak origin David Goldblatt (his parents came to South Africa from small Lithuanian town Papile) was born in 1930 in South Africa and since the 1960s he has devoted all of his time to photography. In 1989, Goldblatt founded the Market Photography Workshop in Johannesburg. In 1998 he was the first South African to be given a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2001, a retrospective of his work, David Goldblatt Fifty-One Years began a tour of galleries and museums. He was one of the few South African artists to exhibit at Documenta 11 (2002) and Documenta 12 (2007) in Kassel, Germany. He has held solo exhibitions at the Jewish Museum and the New Museum, both in New York, as well as in Paris, Liverpool, Amsterdam, Porto, Brussels, Munich, Barcelona, Melbourne and elsewhere. His work was included in the exhibition ILLUMInations at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, and has featured on shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Barbican Centre in London. He has published over 20 books of his work. He is the recipient of the 2006 Hasselblad award, the 2009 Henri Cartier-Bresson Award, and the 2013 ICP Infinity Award. The main subjects of Goldblatt‘s photographs are complex life of South African people during Apartheid and country‘s landscapes. Goldblatt is awarded the President‘s Order of Ikhamanga in Silver for his outstanding contribution to the portrayal of South African life through the medium of photography. |
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| David Goldblatt presents his photographies |
Deputy Director for Museology Kamilė Rupeikaitė talks with Goldblatt and his daughter |
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| David Goldblatt and are visiting the exposition "The Lost World" at the Tolerance Center |
Karina Simonson presents photographer David Goldblatt |
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David Goldblatt |
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| © Photos by Paulius Račiūnas |
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