{"id":21372,"date":"2018-06-27T10:52:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T14:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=21372"},"modified":"2018-06-27T10:52:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T14:52:39","slug":"honoring-david-goldblatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/27\/honoring-david-goldblatt\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring David Goldblatt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are saddened to learn of the passing of David Goldblatt, legendary photographer and documentarian from South Africa. The images he took during apartheid captured, what he called, &#8216;the underbelly of apartheid&#8217;. For him, to know the values that underlaid the system were more important than covering the events of the day. His images gave the rest of the world a window into what it was like to live and work as a person of color in apartheid, and for that he will forever be remembered.<\/p>\n<p>As a recipient of the 2013 Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement Award from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icp.org\">International Center of Photography,<\/a> we were honored to have the opportunity to create a film about his work. Please take a moment to <a href=\"https:\/\/mediastorm.com\/clients\/2013-icp-infinity-awards-cornell-capa-lifetime-achievement-david-goldblatt\">watch the film<\/a> to learn more about his incredible career.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/c0077-2013-icp-infinity-awards-cornell-capa-lifetime-achievement-david-goldblatt-1280-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14663\" src=\"https:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/c0077-2013-icp-infinity-awards-cornell-capa-lifetime-achievement-david-goldblatt-1280-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/c0077-2013-icp-infinity-awards-cornell-capa-lifetime-achievement-david-goldblatt-1280-poster.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/c0077-2013-icp-infinity-awards-cornell-capa-lifetime-achievement-david-goldblatt-1280-poster-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s &#8220;Father of Photography&#8221;, Goldblatt played an important role mentoring\u00a0 young photographers, including <a href=\"https:\/\/mediastorm.com\/clients\/2016-icp-infinity-awards-photojounalism-zanele-muholi\">Zanele Muholi<\/a>, winner of the 2016 ICP Infinity Award: Documentary &amp; Photojournalism.<\/p>\n<p>Our condolences go out to David Goldblatt&#8217;s family and all the photographers and concerned image-makers he influenced.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are saddened to learn of the passing of David Goldblatt, legendary photographer and documentarian from South Africa. The images he took during apartheid captured, what he called, &#8216;the underbelly of apartheid&#8217;. For him, to know the values that underlaid the system were more important than covering the events of the day. His images gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediastorm-announcements","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}