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David Goldblatt Quotes

1930–2018 South Africa

David Goldblatt (29 November 1930 – 25 June 2018) was a South African photographer. He began taking photographs at 18 and spent more than six decades documenting South African society, particularly during apartheid and its aftermath.

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

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.

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

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Goldblatt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.