David Goldblatt Quotes

David Goldblatt was a South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of apartheid and more recently that country's landscapes. He described himself as a “self-appointed observer and critic of the society into which I was born.” He had numerous publications to his name.

✵ 29. November 1930 – 25. June 2018

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Famous David Goldblatt Quotes

“My father regarded nationalism, including Zionism, as an evil and although he never attempted to convince me of his views, his logic, here, was inescapable.”

David Goldblatt

In "Some Afrikaners Photographed, 1975 – Some Afrikaners Revisited, 2006" (2006), as quoted in David Goldblatt – Afrikaners Photographed and Revisited (1975-2006) http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/12/david-goldblatt-some-afrikaners.html, The ASX Team, 28 December 2010

“During those years color seemed too sweet a medium to express the anger, disgust and fear that apartheid inspired, …”

David Goldblatt

In an interview, c. 2005, with photo historian Mark Haworth-Booth, as quoted in "The Camera Is Not a Machine Gun" http://designobserver.com/article.php?id=10557, Fred Ritchin, 1998

“I often wished during those years that I could be a lyricist with a camera. […] I took great delight in [Edward Weston's] and many other photographers’ work. I envied them the freedom to photograph a landscape apparently without concern for the implications of its possession.”

David Goldblatt

In an interview with Okwui Enwezor, as quoted in "The Camera Is Not a Machine Gun" http://designobserver.com/article.php?id=10557, Fred Ritchin, 1998

“…photographers shouldn’t confuse their response to the politics of the country with their role as photographers.”

David Goldblatt

In an interview with Okwui Enwezor, as quoted in "The Camera Is Not a Machine Gun" http://designobserver.com/article.php?id=10557, Fred Ritchin, 1998

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