David Goldblatt
Click to EnlargeLot number: 21
Details: Ella, daughter of Freek and Martjie Marais, in the children's bedroom, Gamkaskloof, Cape Province (Western Cape) December 1967
Gelatin silver print Signed, not editioned
50.5 x 35 cm
19.9 x 13.8 in
Executed in December 1967
Provenance: Donated by the Artist courtesy of the Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
Estimate: £2,500 - £3,500*
Artist biography:
Born in Randfontein, South Africa, in 1930, Studied Krugersdorp High School
Goldblatt became interested in photography while at Krugersdorp High School and after matriculation in 1948 wished to become a magazine photographer. The field was almost unknown in South Africa at that time and after trying unsuccessfully to enter the profession, he went to work in his father's men's outfitting store in Randfontein. He later achieved his goal and became one of the most celebrated South African magazine photographer's of his time.
David Goldblatt has won the most prestigious photography prize in the world, The Hasselblad Photography Award. He is the only South African artist to win this prize.
Goldblatt's most recent exhibitions include 'History, Memory, Society', with Henri Cartier Bresson and Lee Friedlander at the Tate Modern, London in 2004; 'Unsettled - 8 South African Photographers'; at the National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen in 2005 and 'Landscape: New Acquisitions' at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in September 2006.