David Goldblatt - Fifty-one Years
June 30 - September 1, 2002 Witte de With, center for contemporary art, Rotterdam
Flushing Meadows - so called because it had water-borne sanitation - and lighting masts, Site B, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, Cape, 11 October 1987
This exhibition, 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. This exhibition traces Goldblatt's major themes, among them his work on the gold mines among which he grew up, the homeland transport of segregated people, life in a small-town white community, the portrayal of Afrikaner people, architecture as an expression of values, and recurring from time to time throughout his working life, aspects of Johannesburg, the city in which he lives. [/] Witte de With, center for contemporary art, Rotterdam