The commando of National Party stalwarts which escorted prime minister and National Party leader Hendrik Verwoerd and his wife Betsie to the party's 50th anniversary celebrations at de Wildt, Transvaal. Image: David Goldblatt.

Art & Photography/2014/Reel № 14.001

ByDavid Goldblatt

David Goldblatt on life through the lens (trailer)

A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014

A close reading, kept within reach.

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David Goldblatt takes art & photography as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in South Africa in 2014, the conversation is grounded in David's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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The veteran photographer takes us through 20 photos taken over almost 50 years.

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David Goldblatt

Johannesburg/South Africa

David Goldblatt is a South African photographer and the first South African to be given a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.