David Goldblatt: Hasselblad Award 2006

David Goldblatt: Hasselblad Award 2006When David Goldblatt received the world renowned Hasselblad Award in 2006, he had been making photographs of the South African landscape and culture for more than 50 years. Born in 1930 in a gold mining town near Johannesburg, his parents were Jewish refugees from Lithuania, and they raised him with an emphasis on tolerance and antiracism. In 1975, at the height of apartheid, Goldblatt explored white nationalist culture in Some Afrikaners

It has been said that artists do not reach true greatness until after they are dead

from the linguistic to the sublime

and the slippage between serene image and shock

from a trip to the circus to Columbia University

and rigorously pushing them to develop into their most coherent forms

Lubabalo Nkobo and Thorne Oliver

the iconic Johannesburg apartment building which is Africa’s tallest residential skyscraper

many having not been looked at for fifty years

moving image

former Drum journalist: 'The pictures that really got people talking about Bob were the series he took of the humiliating and degrading 'Tauza dance' that prisoners were forced to perform in the courtyard of the notorious Johannesburg prison

A close friend of André Courrèges and Paco Rabanne

Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Stellenbosch and current President of the South African Academy of Science