{"id":944,"date":"2023-04-10T06:28:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T06:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nandos.com\/seeourfuture\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=944"},"modified":"2023-04-19T14:49:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T14:49:44","slug":"david-goldblatt","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.nandos.com\/seeourfuture\/artist\/david-goldblatt\/","title":{"rendered":"David Goldblatt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of South Africa\u2019s most famous documentary photographers, <b>David Goldblatt (1930 \u2013 2018)<\/b> is internationally acclaimed for his work. The grandson of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants, he was born in the small mining town of Randfontein, Johannesburg. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His interest in photography was sparked by his mother giving him a camera and after he matriculated in 1948, Goldblatt set his sights on a career in photojournalism. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He steadfastly avoided photographing any of the turning points in South African history.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He published a number of books, was one of the first South Africans to be represented in the New York Museum of Modern Art and his work is exhibited and collected in some of the leading galleries and private collections around the world. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to a host of prestigious international awards, he also held honorary doctorates from the University of Cape Town, the University of the Witwatersrand, and the San Francisco Art Institute.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goldblatt is survived by his wife Lily, three children and two grandchildren.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1489,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-944","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>David Goldblatt - Nando&#039;s African Art Exhibition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nandos.com\/seeourfuture\/artist\/david-goldblatt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"David Goldblatt - Nando&#039;s African Art Exhibition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of South Africa\u2019s most famous documentary photographers, David Goldblatt (1930 \u2013 2018) is internationally acclaimed for his work. 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