Archive Hatje Cantz Verlag | Jurgen Schadeberg

Quite A Few Impressive Images By Jürgen Schadeberg (*1931 In Berlin) Have Gone Down In History. The Young Photographer Went To South Africa In 1950 To Work For Drum, The First Magazine For Black Readers; Later, He Worked For Life And Stern Magazines. In The Early Fifties, He Did Portraits Of Young Attorney Nelson Mandela And Singer Miriam Makeba, And Documented The Wild Nightlife In Sophiatown, A Dynamic Black Neighborhood In Johannesburg. Revealing The Great Poverty Endured By Most Of The Black Population Ultimately Became His Chief Focus. In 1964, When Drum Was Banned, Schadeberg Left The Country And Spent The Next Decades In Europe And The United States, Photographing People In Ordinary Circumstances, Without Ever Resorting To Stereotyping Them Or Depriving Them Of Their Dignity.

Schadeberg Returned To South Africa In 1985, And In 1994 He Shot Yet Another Photo That Was Distributed Around The World: Nelson Mandela, The First Black President Of South Africa, At The Window Of His Former Prison Cell On Robben Island. Schadeberg, Who Has Been A Teacher To Many Important Contemporary Artists, Now Lives And Works Near Paris.

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Jürgen Schadeberg (*1931 Inberlin) Lives And Works Near Paris.After Completing An Apprenticeship As A Photographer With The Deutsche Presse Agentur In Hamburg, Schadeberg Immigrated To South Africa In 1950, Where He Became A Photographer And Art Director For Drum Magazine. He Photographed Many Important Events And Figures Of The Anti-Apartheid Movement. In 1964 He Was Forced To Leave South Africa, So He Worked As A Photojournalist In Europe And The United States During The Nineteen-Sixties And Seventies. He Has Taught Photography At Various Art Schools And Curated Influential Photography Exhibitions. In 1985 He Returned To South Africa For A Number Of Years.Numerous Exhibitions In Important Photography Galleries Around The World, Including Large Retrospectives At The South African National Gallery In Cape Town In 1996 And At The Gallery Of Photography In Dublin In 1999. Solo Shows At The Maison Européenne De La Photographie In Paris In 2002, The Kunstmuseum Bochum In 2005, The Belgravia Gallery In London, 2007, And An Exhibition Of New Works, Voices From The Land, Traveling Since 2006.Jürgen Schadeberg (*1931 Inberlin) Lives And Works Near Paris.After Completing An Apprenticeship As A Photographer With The Deutsche Presse Agentur In Hamburg, Schadeberg Immigrated To South Africa In 1950, Where He Became A Photographer And Art Director For Drum Magazine. He Photographed Many Important Events And Figures Of The Anti-Apartheid Movement. In 1964 He Was Forced To Leave South Africa, So He Worked As A Photojournalist In Europe And The United States During The Nineteen-Sixties And Seventies. He Has Taught Photography At Various Art Schools And Curated Influential Photography Exhibitions. In 1985 He Returned To South Africa For A Number Of Years.Numerous Exhibitions In Important Photography Galleries Around The World, Including Large Retrospectives At The South African National Gallery In Cape Town In 1996 And At The Gallery Of Photography In Dublin In 1999. Solo Shows At The Maison Européenne De La Photographie In Paris In 2002, The Kunstmuseum Bochum In 2005, The Belgravia Gallery In London, 2007, And An Exhibition Of New Works, Voices From The Land, Traveling Since 2006.