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Schadeberg, Jurgen, 1931-2020

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Personal name headingSchadeberg, Jurgen, 1931-2020
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Variant(s)Schadeberg, J. (Jurgen), 1931-
Schadeberg, Jurgen, 1931-
Associated countryGermany South Africa England Spain
Birth date1931-03-18
Death date2020-08-29
Place of birthBerlin (Germany)
Place of deathLa Drova (Spain)
Field of activityBlacks--South Africa Photojournalism
AffiliationCentral School of Art & Design (London, England)
Deutscher Pressedienst
Profession or occupationPhotographers
Found inHis An exhibition of photographs, 1981: t.p. (Jurgen Schadeberg) p. 1 (b. 1931)
Voices from Robben Island, 1994: t.p. (Jürgen Schadeberg)
Bailey's African Photo Archives presents ... 1984?: t.p. (J. Schadeberg)
South African History Online, viewed Dec. 18, 2013 (Jürgen Schadeberg; b. 1931, Berlin, Germany; South African photographer and artist; studied at the School of Optic and Pho[to]technic in Berlin; apprentice for Germany Press Agency for 2 years; moved to South Africa in 1950; joined Drum magazine as their official photographer and layout artist in Sep. 1951; also worked with photo printing company and photo studio; left Drum in 1959 to freelance, photographed San (Bushmen); left South Africa in 1964 for London, editor of Camera Owner (later Creative Camera), then Spain; photographer for Christian Aid in Botswana and Tanzania, 1972; photographed in Senegal, Mali, Kenya and Zaire, 1973; taught at the Central School of Art and Design in London after return there in 1973)
Wikipedia, Dec. 18, 2013 (returned to South Africa in 1984; continues to work as a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker about the black community)
The New York Times, Jürgen Schadeberg, whose photos chronicled apartheid, dies at 89, August 30, 2020, viewed online September 1, 2020 (died at his home in La Drova, Spain, on Saturday [August 29]; born in Berlin on March 18, 1931; worked as darkroom assistant and photographer at German Press Agency in Hamburg, then emigrated to South Africa in 1949; returned to South Africa in 1985, spent a year cataloging the Drum archives, and with wife, Claudia Horvath, an art historian and television producer, produced books based on the Drum archive and documentaries; they took South African citizenship in 1994; left again in 2007, living in northern France, Berlin, then Spain)
Associated languageeng ger