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About the photographer, Jürgen SCHADEBERG (1931-2020)
"A whole series of impressive pictures by Jürgen SCHADEBERG (* 1931 in Berlin) went down in history. The young photographer went to South Africa in 1950 and worked there for 'Drum', the legendary first magazine for black readers, and later for 'Time Life 'and the' star '. In the early 1950s he portrayed the young lawyer Mandela or the singer Makeba and the wild nightlife in the dynamic black district of Sophiatown. When 'Drum' was banned in 1964, Jürgen SCHADEBERG left the country and continued to photograph people and their everyday lives in Europe and the USA over the next few decades, without ever falling into stereotypes or taking away their dignity. In 1985 SCHADEBERG returned to South Africa and took another picture there in 1994 that went around the world: Mandela, the first black president of South Africa, at the window of his former cell on Robben Island. "(Publisher's text, © Hatje Cantz. 2008)
Jürgen SCHADEBERG died on August 29th, 2020 in La Drova, Spain.
Photo books by and about Jürgen SCHADEBERG
Exhibition of Photographs (1981); 'The Fifties People of South Africa' (1987); 'The Finest Photos From the Old Drum' (1987), 'DRUM – Die fünfziger Jahre – Bilder aus Südafrika' (1991); 'The Black and White Fifties: Jürgen Schadeberg’s South Africa' (2001); 'Jürgen Schadeberg' (Hrsg.: Ralf-Peter Seippel, 2008) sowie 'Nicht von hier und nicht von dort: Umbruch und Brüche in Südafrika' (2010)