Overview

Jürgen Schadeberg was born in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 in 1931. In 1950, he moved to South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

 to rejoin his family and joined Drum magazine as official photographer and layout artist.

Schadeberg became a teacher and mentor to some of the most creative South African photographers of his time, like Bob Gosani

Bob Gosani

-Overview:Bob Gosani started off at Drum magazine as a messenger but soon moved to the photographic department where he became Jürgen Schadeberg’s darkroom assistant. He later became one of Drum’s best photographers....

, Ernest Cole

Ernest Cole

-Overview:Ernest Cole was a black South African born in Eersterust in Pretoria, in 1940.He left school when the Bantu Education Act was put in place, and instead completed his matric via correspondance...

 and later Peter Magubane

Peter Magubane

-Early life:He was born in Vrededorp, now Pageview, a suburb in Johannesburg and grew up in Sophiatown. He started taking some photographs using a Kodak Brownie box camera as a schoolboy....

. As one of the few white photographers who photographed daily life among the black community, he became knowledgeable about black life and culture. As a result, he captured on film the beginnings of the freedom movement, the effects of apartheid and the vibrancy of township

Township (South Africa)

In South Africa, the term township and location usually refers to the urban living areas that, from the late 19th century until the end of Apartheid, were reserved for non-whites . Townships were usually built on the periphery of towns and cities...

 life.

Schadeberg photographed many historic and pivotal events in the 1950s among them the Defiance Campaign

Defiance Campaign

The Defiance Campaign against Unjust Laws was presented by the African National Congress at a conference held in Bloemfontein, South Africa in December 1951....

 of 1952, the 1956 Treason Trial

Treason Trial

The Treason Trial was a trial in which 156 people, including Nelson Mandela, were arrested in a raid and accused of treason in South Africa in 1956....

, the Sophiatown removals of 1955, the Sophiatown jazz and social scene, the Sharpeville funeral of 1960 and pictures of Robben Island

Robben Island

Robben Island is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 km west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa. The name is Dutch for "seal island". Robben Island is roughly oval in shape, 3.3 km long north-south, and 1.9 km wide, with an area of 5.07 km². It is flat and only a...

 inmates. Some of the famous people he photographed include Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing...

, Walter Sisulu

Walter Sisulu

Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress .-Family and Education:...

, Oliver Tambo

Oliver Tambo

Oliver Reginald Tambo was a South African anti-apartheid politician and a central figure in the African National Congress .-Biography:Oliver Tambo was born in Bizana in eastern Pondoland in what is now Eastern Cape...

, Trevor Huddleston

Trevor Huddleston

Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston CR, KCMG was an English Anglican bishop. He was most well known for his anti-apartheid activism and his 'Prayer for Africa'...

 and Govan Mbeki

Govan Mbeki

Govan Archibald Mvuyelwa Mbeki was a South African politician, and father of the former South African president Thabo Mbeki and political economist Moeletsi Mbeki...

. He also documented the Fifties jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 legends such as Dolly Rathebe

Dolly Rathebe

Dolly Rathebe was a South African musician and actress.Dolly Rathebe was born in Randfontein in South Africa but grew up in Sophiatown which she describes as having been "a wonderful place". She was discovered around 1948 after singing at a picnic in Johannesburg...

, Kippie Moeketsi

Kippie Moeketsi

Kippie ‘Morolong’ Moeketsi was a South African saxophonist and jazz musician. Born into a musical Johannesburg family, Moeketsi was the youngest of eleven brothers, and one sister who was a nurse of whom all but 4 played an instrument...

, Thandi Klaasen

Thandi Klaasen

Thandi Klaasen is a jazz musician from Sophiatown, Gauteng. Her career as a singer and dancer began in the mid-1950s. In 1961 she moved to London to work in the musical King Kong. She has since performed with Dolly Rathebe, Miriam Makeba, Dorothy Masuka, and others.When she was a teenager, her face...

 and Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba , nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award winning South African singer and civil rights activist....

.

Drum wanted the singer Dolly Rathebe

Dolly Rathebe

Dolly Rathebe was a South African musician and actress.Dolly Rathebe was born in Randfontein in South Africa but grew up in Sophiatown which she describes as having been "a wonderful place". She was discovered around 1948 after singing at a picnic in Johannesburg...

 to be the cover girl for one of their issues. Schadeberg took her to a Johannesburg mine dump and photographed her in a bikini. The two were arrested for contravening the Immorality Act

Immorality Act

Immorality Act was the title of two acts of the Parliament of South Africa which prohibited, amongst other things, sexual relations between white people and people of other races. The first Immorality Act, of 1927, prohibited sex between whites and blacks, until amended in 1950 to prohibit sex...

 which forbade interracial relationships.

In 1959, Schadeberg left Drum to become a freelancer

Freelancer

A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is somebody who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long term. These workers are often represented by a company or an agency that resells their labor and that of others to its clients with or without project management and...

. He was part of an expedition led by Professor Phillip V. Tobias

Phillip V. Tobias

Phillip Vallentine Tobias is a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg...

 from the University of the Witwatersrand

University of the Witwatersrand

The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg is a South African university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. It is more commonly known as Wits University...

 to study the San

Bushmen

The indigenous people of Southern Africa, whose territory spans most areas of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola, are variously referred to as Bushmen, San, Sho, Barwa, Kung, or Khwe...

 (Bushmen). These images were published in The Kalahari Bushmen Dance in 1982.

He was forced to leave South Africa in 1964 and went to London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

. Here he taught and curated photographic exhibitions, notably for the Whitechapel Art Gallery.

He then moved to Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

 where he concentrated on a career as an artist. In 1972, he returned to Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

 where he accepted a position as photographer for Christian Aid

Christian Aid

Christian Aid is the official relief and development agency of 40 British and Irish churches and works to support sustainable development, alleviate poverty, support civil society and provide disaster relief in South America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa and Asia...

 in Botswana

Botswana

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana , is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa. The citizens are referred to as "Batswana" . Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966...

 and Tanzania

Tanzania

The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...

. In 1973 he traveled from Senegal

Senegal

Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal , is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north...

 and Mali

Mali

Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...

 to Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

 and Zaire

Zaire

The Republic of Zaire was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between 27 October 1971 and 17 May 1997. The name of Zaire derives from the , itself an adaptation of the Kongo word nzere or nzadi, or "the river that swallows all rivers".-Self-proclaimed Father of the Nation:In...

 to take photographs.

In 1984, Schadeberg returned to South Africa. He continues to work as a photo-journalist as well as making documentaries about the black community.

Books

• The Fifties people of South Africa : the lives of some ninety-five people who were influential in South Africa during the fifties, a period which saw the first stirrings of the coming revolution / with photos by Bob Gosani ... [et al.], Bailey's African Photo Archives, 1987, ISBN 0-62-010529-1

• The Finest photos from the old Drum, Bailey's African Photo Archives, 1987; Penguin Books [distributor], ISBN 0-62-0105811-0

• The Kalahari Bushmen dance, Jürgen Schadeberg, 1982, ISBN 0-70-450472-3

• Nelson Mandela and the rise of the ANC / compiled and edited by Jürgen Schadeberg ; photographs by Ian Berry ... [et al.] ; text by Benson Dyantyi ...[et al.], Jonathan Ball, 1990, ISBN 0-94-746418-2

• Sof'town blues : images from the black '50s, J. Schadeberg, 1994, ISBN 0-95-839801-1

• Voices from Robben Island, Ravan Press, 1994, ISBN 0-86-975454-8

• The black and white fifties : Jürgen Schadeberg's South Africa, Protea, 2001, ISBN 1-91-982571-1

• Soweto today, Protea Book House, 2002, ISBN 1-91-982572-X

• Who Killed Mr. Drum? / Sylvester Stein / photography by Jürgen Schadeberg, Corvo Books, 2003, ISBN 0-95-432551-6

• The Book of Life, UN Development Programme, 2004, ISBN 0-62-033285-9

• Witness: 52 Years of Pointing Lenses at Life, Protea Book House, 2004, ISBN 1-86-919067-X

• Voices from the Land, Protea Book House, 2005, ISBN 1-86919-105-6

• Tales from Jozi, Protea Book House, 2007, ISBN 978-1-86919-175-7

• Jürgen Schadeberg, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Edited by Ralf-P. Seippel, 2008, German/English/French, ISBN 978-3-7757-2150-9

Film and video

• Ernest Cole - Video - 52 mins - The life and work of a courageous & pioneering black photographer

• Voices from Robben Island
  Robben Island
  Robben Island is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 km west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa. The name is Dutch for "seal island". Robben Island is roughly oval in shape, 3.3 km long north-south, and 1.9 km wide, with an area of 5.07 km². It is flat and only a...
  
  - 16 mm - 90 mins - The history of the infamous island prison - a BBC co-production

• War & Peace - Video - 60 mins - The history of the ANC
  African National Congress
  The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...
  
   from 1900–1994

• Have you seen Drum recently?
  Have you seen Drum recently?
  Have you seen Drum recently? is a 1998 film which uses photographs from the Drum archives to tell the story of the magazine and documents its contribution to the cultural and political life of South Africa....
  
  - 35 mm - 77 mins - The vibrant and turbulent fifties with original music and photographs

• The seven ages of music - Video - 56 mins - A musical trip through history - from San
  Bushmen
  The indigenous people of Southern Africa, whose territory spans most areas of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola, are variously referred to as Bushmen, San, Sho, Barwa, Kung, or Khwe...
  
   singing to Hugh Masekela
  Hugh Masekela
  Hugh Ramopolo Masekela is a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer.-Early life:Masekela was born in Kwa-Guqa Township, Witbank, South Africa. He began singing and playing piano as a child...
  
  

• Dolly
  Dolly Rathebe
  Dolly Rathebe was a South African musician and actress.Dolly Rathebe was born in Randfontein in South Africa but grew up in Sophiatown which she describes as having been "a wonderful place". She was discovered around 1948 after singing at a picnic in Johannesburg...
  
  & the Inkspots - Video - 26 mins - The life and memories of this legendary jazz singing combination

• Drumbeats - 16 mm - 56 mins

• Ballroom Fever - Video - 26 mins

• Jo'burg Cocktail - Video - 56 mins

• Halala Bomane! [Hail the Women!] - Video - 56 mins

Photography

• 1962 - Places & Faces; Adler Fielding Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 1963 - South African Social Scenes; Gorzenich Exhibition Hall, Cologne, Germany (with Peter Magubane)
• 1970 - Jürgen Schadeberg-A Retrospective; Hotel Melia, Torremolinos, Costa Del Sol, Spain
• 1976 - Jürgen Schadeberg-A Retrospective; Central School, London, UK.
• 1977 - Village Faces; Hayward Gallery, London, UK.
• 1977 - Face to Face; Air Gallery, London, UK.
• 1980 - A Portfolio; The Photographic Gallery; Southampton University, UK.
• 1981 - London Scenes; Photographers' Gallery, London, UK.
• 1988 - A Retrospective; Market Gallery, Johannesburg
• 1995 - Sof'town Blues; Photographers' Gallery, London, UK.
• 1996 - African Women; Nantes and other venues in France
• 1996 - Jürgen Schadeberg-A Retrospective Exhibition; South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Oliewenhuis National Gallery, Bloemfontein; King George V Nat
• 1998 - Fifties South Africa; Vue D'Afrique Festival, Montreal, Canada
• 1998 - The Berlin Wall; Goethe Institute, Johannesburg (toured to Goethe Institutes internationally)
• 1998 - Selected Images - Institute for The Advancement of Journalism, Johannesburg, Freedom Forum, Johannesburg; South Africa
• 1998 - Jürgen Schadeberg - A Retrospective; Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
• 1999 - Jürgen Schadeberg - The 'Fifties; The Waterfront, Belfast, N.Ireland, UK.
• 2000 - The Naked Face; Sandton Civic Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2000 - Faced; Carfax Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2001 - Soweto 2001; Art On Paper Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2001 - The White 'Fifties; Crake Gallery, Johannesburg, Bensusan Museum of Photography, Johannesburg; South Africa
• 2001 - Jürgen Schadeberg-Drum Beat: South Africa 1950-1994; Axis Gallery, New York, NY
• 2001 - Jurgen Schadeberg - Fine Images over 50 Years - Photoza - Johannesburg
• 2001 - Jurgen Schadeberg - Fine Images over 50 Years - Photoza - Johannesburg
• 2002 - The Black & White Fifties" & "Soweto Today" touring SA with The Alliance Francaise - Opened at The Pretoria Art Museum, 8 city tour
• 2002 - Voices from the Past - Moving Stills over 50 years - Goethe Institut Johannesburg
• 2002 - The San of the Kalahari 1959 - RAU Art Gallery, Johannesburg
• 2002 - The San of the Kalahari 1959 - PhotoZa Gallery, Johannesburg
• 2003 - The San of the Kalahari 1959 - Tour of South Africa to 8 venues by Alliance Francaise
• 2003 - All that Jazz: 52 years of jazz images, Standard Bank Art Gallery, Johannesburg
• 2003 - Goethe Institut, Berlin (a retrospective of South African images)
• 2003 - Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine, Bamako, Mali
• 2003/4 - Retrospective of South African work touring Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong
• 2004 - Dorottya Gallery, Budapest (1950s images) & Mediawave in Gyor in April
• 2004 - The San of the Kalahari – Pretoria 2004
• 2004 - On The Beach – New colour work. Gallery@157, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2004 - A Restrospective of 52 Years of South African work – Espace Cosmopolis, Nantes, France
• 2004 - Selected Works – Pascal Polar Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• 2005 - A Retrospective of South African work – Nicephore Niepce Museum, Chalon Sur Saône
• 2005 - Drum Days in fifties South Africa – Riverside Studios, London
• 2005 - Retrospective – Seippel Galerie, Koln, Germany
• 2005 - Jazz images – Marciac, France
• 2005 - Retrospective, Lectoure Centre de la Photographie, France
• 2005 - Voices from the Land – a major photo essay of conditions on SA Farms today
• 2005 - Retrospective – Carcassonne, France
• 2005 - Voices from the Land – a major photo essay of conditions on SA Farms today, MuseumAfrica, Johannesburg
• 2005 - Solo Exhibition – Bochum Museum, Germany
• 2006 - Solo Show, Zeitungsmuseum, Saarbrücken, Germany
• 2006 - The Defiance Campaign 1952, The Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg
• 2006 - Solo Exhibition, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany.
• 2006 - Voices from the Land images, Human Rights Forum, Nantes, France
• 2007 - Bars solos show Seippel Gallery, Koln, Germany
• 2007 - Retrospective St Etienne Museum, France
• 2007 - Solo Exhibition and book launch MuseumAfrica new colour work My Joburg
• 2007 - Solo Show Belgravia Gallery, London
• 2007 - “Happy Hour” solo show at Seippel Gallery, Koln, Germany
• 2007 - Solo Show Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Germany
• 2007 - Solo Show “Tales from Jozi” Oslo University, Norway
• 2007 - Solo Show “Jazz & Jozi”- Seippel Gallery, Johannesburg
• 2007 - Solo Retrospective, Kulturverein Zehntscheur, Rottenburg, Germany
• 2007 - Fifties Show & Film Screenings, Medienhaus, Hannover
• 2007 - Solo Show – De Queeste Gallery, Watou, Belgium
• 2007 - Jazz Show & Book Launch, Photographers Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
• 2008 - Solo Show – Leica images, Leica Gallery, Tokyo
• 2008 - The Age of Jazz – Belgravia Gallery, London
• 2008 - Photographies Dans Le Bocage – Vire & Brecey, Normandy, France
• 2008 - Retrospective – Ypres Cultural Centre, Belgium
• 2008 - The Fifties - Nomad Gallery Brussels, Belgium
• 2008 - Retrospective, Alençon Conseil General, France
• 2008 - Retrospective SA - Kultur Speicher Museum, Wurzburg, Germany
• 2008 - “Tales from Jozi” new colour work 2007, Cosmopolis Centre, Nantes, France
• 2008 - Selected Leica images - Leica Gallery, Solms, Germany
• 2008 - Selected Leica images - Leica Gallery Frankfurt
• 2008 - “Mandela” – Belgravia Gallery, London
• 2008 - Solo Show - Raum Sylt – Quelle, Sylt, Germany
• 2008 - Solo Show - George Meistermann Museum, Wittliech, Trier, Germany
• 2008 - Solo Show – Seippel Gallery, Koln, Germany
• 2008 - Art Basel Miami
• 2009 - The San of the Kalahari 1959 – Hotel des Arts, Remelard, France
• 2009 - Solo Show - Leica Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
• 2009 - Blitz Gallery, Tokyo
• 2009 - Voices from the Land show – Hannover University, Germany
• 2009 - Retrospective, Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg
• 2009 - Retrospective Show, Museum Siegburg, Germany
• 2009 - Solo Show, Palazzo Libera, Villa Lagarina, Italy
• 2009 - Le Jazz, La Liberte, Afrique du Sud 1951 - 2007, Coutances, France
• 2009 - Timeless Moments – Leica Gallery, Salzburg

Painting

• 1969 - Raymond Duncan Gallery, Paris, France
• 1970 - La Palette Bleue, Paris, France
• 1970 - Don Pedro Gallery, Carihuela, Spain

Selected group exhibitions

• 1987 - The Finest Photos from the Old Drum; Shell Gallery, Cape Town; Durban Museum, Durban; Market Gallery, Johannesburg; South Africa
• 1988 - Drum; Impressions Gallery, York, UK.
• 1993 - Fifties South Africa; Herten, Germany
• 1995 - South Africa Images; photo Forum, Frankfurt, Germany
• 1997 - Condition Humaine; La Musée du Port, La Reunion, Reunion
• 1998 - Under the Tropic: 25 years of South African Photojournalism; Cardiff University, UK.
• 1999 - Africa by Africa-A Photographic View; Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK.
• 1999 - Maverick; Crake Gallery, Johannesburg
• 2000 - Lengthening Shadows; Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, U.S.
• 2001 - Soweto: A South African Legend; Munich, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hannover; Germany
• 2002 - Environmental Images - PhotoZa, Johannesburg
• 2002 - Fine Fifties Images of South Africa - La Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris
• 2003 - The History of Soweto – permanent exhibition at the Regina Church, Soweto Created & Curated by Jurgen & Claudia Schadeberg
• 2004 - ARCO, Madrid
• 2004 - ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg (images of Kliptown, 2003)
• 2004 - Kliptown 2003, Kliptown Centre (a photo project with the work of 4 students)
• 2004 - City & Country new colour work, Axis Gallery, New York
• 2004 - Group exhibition – Artcoza Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2004 - Kliptown – The Goethe Institut, Johannesburg
• 2004 - San Images for Fototage Wiesbaden, Galerie Lichtbild, Wiesbaden, Germany
• 2004 - Selected Works, Pascal Polar Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• 2005 - Kliptown – Horniman Museum, UK
• 2005 - Selected Works - Toomey-Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, USA
• 2005 - A Selection of Fities South African Images - Wedge Gallery, Toronto, Canada
• 2006 - Painting & Photography – South African University Gallery, Johannesburg
• 2006 - Fifties Work – Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
• 2007 - Virginia Museum of Fine Art, USA
• 2007 - Esslingen Triennale
• 2007 - Contact Photo Festival, Toronto
• 2007 - Seippel Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2007 - Fine Art Show – Rocca di Castagnoli, Tuscany, Italy
• 2009 - Virginia Museum of Fine Art Touring Show – Virginia, Sydney,
• 2009 - Bologna Art Fair
• 2009 - 'Century of Jazz' – Museum of Modern Art, Rovereto, Italy

External links

• Jürgen Schadeberg’s home page
• Jürgen Schadeberg’s gallery