In his work as a photographer and author, David Goldblatt (born 1930 in Randfontein, Republic of South Africa, lives in
Johannesburg) has documented and analysed the social and political structures and the social tensions of South Africa
from the beginning of Apartheid to the present. The result is an impressive photographic record of South African culture
and, at the same time, a conclusive body of works that make David Goldblatt one of the most important contemporary
documentary photographers.

David Goldblatt: Intersections” is produced in co-operation with museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf. Curated by Christoph Danelzik-Brüggemann. A catalogue is available, including texts by Michael Stevenson and Christoph Danelzik-Brüggemann, and an interview with the artist by Mark Haworth-Booth, published by Prestel, Munich-Berlin-London-New York 2005.

The exhibition of David Goldblatt, Fifty-one Years, produced and organized by the MACBA Barcelona, is a retrospective presentation of David Goldblatt’s work. Featuring more than 200 images by the South-African photographer, the show reflects half a century of Goldblatt’s meticulous observation of the realities of his country from 1948 until 1999.

Over the years his probings have led to a number of photographic essays from which the present exhibition is drawn. Some of these essays have covered short periods of time and specific places, others have spanned decades and great geographical expanse.

David Goldblatt (born 1930 in Randfontein, South Africa) has been a photographer and writer since the early 1950s, capturing the "structure of things in this country" and trying to describe the signs and architecture of 350 years of white supremacy in South Africa. His photographic work represents the political development of his country from the appearance of the first signs of apartheid in 1951 to its end. David Goldblatt is currently working on a text for the publication of this life's work. “When the book is finished” – as he says – “I hope my obsession with apartheid will also be over. I hope my visionary powers will be sufficient to add something to my archive that I have no idea of ​​yet.”