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

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

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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.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt

Born: November 29, 1930
Died: June 25, 2018 (aged 87)
Bio: David Goldblatt was a South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of apartheid and more recently that country's landscapes.
Known for:
  1. In Boksburg (1982)
  2. On the mines (1973)
  3. Some Afrikaners photographed (1975)
  4. South Africa (1998)
  5. Fifty-one years (2001)

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