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1931born in Berlin 1946photographic apprentice with professional photographer & studied at the Schule für Optik und Phototechnik Berlin 1947photographic volunteer at dpa, Hamburg 1950emigrated to South Africa. Freelanced as photographer. Became Picture Editor, Head of the Photographic Department & Art Designer on Drum Magazine, Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Africa). Also freelanced for Time Life, Black Star & Der Stern 1959–64freelanced and worked on staff at Sunday Times 1964moved to London (UK) 1968moved to Spain/Spanien 1972returned to London (UK) 1979taught a three month course at The New School, New York (USA) 1980taught at the Kunsthochschule, Hamburg 1980-84 freelanced as photographer in London (UK) and Germany 1984/85freelanced, film projects in France/Frankreich 1985South Africa, documentaries and dramas about black social, political & cultural life in South Africa 1987–2003continues to hold several photographic exhibitions in South Africa, UK, Germany, France and the United States Lives and works in Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Africa) 
Tales from Jozi – Wits University Press 2007 Jazz, Swing & Blues – SA Jazz over six decades - New Africa Books, South Africa 2007 Jurgen Schadeberg – Photographies – IAC France 2005 Voices from the Land – Farm life and farm conditions in South Africa, Protea Bookhouse 2005 The Book of Life – A look at the UNDP Aids Programme in SA (United Nations 2004) Witness – A Retrospective of 52 years or work in Africa, Europe & USA (Protea Bookhouse 2004) The San of the Kalahari 1959. (Protea Bookhouse 2002) Soweto Today, 2002 (Protea Bookhouse) The Black & White Fifties, 2002 (Protea Bookhouse) South African Classics, 1995 (Macmillan) Sof’town Blues, 1995 (Jürgen Schadeberg) Voices from Robben Island, 1994 (Macmillan) Drum, 1991 (Rogner & Bernhard, Hamburg) Nelson Mandela & the Rise of the ANC, 1990 (Jonathan Ball/Donker) The Fifties People of South Africa, 1987 (Bailey’s Photo Archives, Johannesburg) The Finest Photos from the Old Drum, 1987 (Bailey’s Photo Archives, Johannesburg) Kalahari Bushman Dance, 1982 (Jürgen Schadeberg) Jürgen Schadeberg, 1981 (Photographers’ Gallery, London) 
2008Leica Galerie Solms 2007Seippel Gallery Johannesburg, Südafrika, Jazz & Jozi Kunstverein Zehntscheuer, Rottenburg, The Black and White Fifties Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, The Black and White Fifties Galerie Seippel, Köln, Happy Hour St. Etinne Museum, France, Retrospective MuseumAfrica, Tales from Jozi Belgravia Gallery, London, Tales from Jozi Oslo University, Norway 2006Major Retrospective Luxembourg, Neumunster Museum Zeitungsmuseum, Saarbrücken, Germany, The defiance Campaign 1952, The Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg, Potsdammer Platz, Berlin, Germany, "Voices from the Land" images, Human Rights Forum, Nantes, France 2005Galerie Seippel, Köln/Cologne, The Black Fifties in South Africa Bordeaux (Frankreich/France), Retrospective Marciac (Frankreich/France), Jazz Images over 52 years Centre de la Photographie, Lectoure (Frankreich/France), Retrospektive The Horniman Museum, London (UK), Kliptown Today - 2003 The Wedge Gallery, Toronto (Kanada/Canada), Month of the Photographie, Fifties Work The Photographers Gallery, Kapstadt/Cape Town (Südafrika/South Africa), Selected works PICTO Gallery, Kapstadt/Cape Town (Südafrika/South Africa), Selected works Nicephore Niepce Museum, Chalon Sur Saone (Frankreich/France), Retrospective 2004Pascal Polar Gallery, Brüssel/Brussels (Belgien/Belgium), Selected works Espace Cosmopolis, Nantes (Frankreich/France), A Retrospective of 52 Years of South African work Gallery@157, Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Africa), On the Beach - New colour work Pretoria 2004(Südafrika/South Africa), The San of the Kalahari Dorottya Gallery, Budapest (Ungarn/Hungary), Fifties Images 2003Singapur/Singapore; Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia); Bangkok (Thailand), Bejiing, Shanghai, Hong Kong (China), Retrospective of South African work Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine, Bamako (Mali) Goethe Institut, Berlin, A Retrospective of South African work over 52 Years Standart Bank, Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Africa), All that Jazz, 52 Years of Jazz images 2002RAU Art Gallery und PhotoZa Gallery, Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Africa), The San of the Kalahari 1959 Goethe Institut Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Africa), voices from the Past - Moving stills over 50 years Pretoria Art Museum (Südafrika/South Africa), "The Black 6 White Fifties" & "Soweto Today" 2001PhotoZa, Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Africa), Jürgen Schadeberg - fine Images over 50 Years Axis Gallery, New York (USA), Jürgen Schadeberg - Drum Beat: South Africa 1950-1994 Crake Gallery, Johannesburg Bensuan Museum of Photography, Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Africa), The White Fifties Art on Paper Gallery, Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Africa), Soweto 2001 2000Carfax Gallery, Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Africa), Faced Sandton Civic Art Gallery, Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Africa), The Naked Face 1999The Waterfront, Belfast (Nordirland/Northern Ireland, UK), Jürgen Schadeberg - In the Fifties 1998Gallery of Photography, Dublin (Irland/Ireland), Jürgen Schadeberg - A Retrospective Vue d'Afrique Festival, Montreal (Kanada/Canada), Fifties South Afrika Goethe Institut Johannesbug (Südafrika/South Africa), The Berlin Wall Institute for the Advancement of Journalism, Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Africa), Selected Images Freedom Forum, Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Africa) 1996South African National Gallery, Kapstadt, Oliewenhuis National Gallery, Bloemfontein, King George V National Gallery, Port Elizabeth (Südafrika/South Africa), Jürgen Schadeberg - A Retrospective Exhibition Nantes (Frankreich/France), African Women 1995Photographers' Gallery, London (UK), Sof'town Blues 1988Market Gallery, Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Africa), A Retrospective 1981Photographers' Gallery, London (UK), London Scenes 1980The Photographic Gallery, Southampton University (UK), A Portfolio 1977Air Gallery, London (UK), Face to Face Hayward Gallery, London (UK), Village Faces 1970La Palette Bleue, Paris (Frankreich/France) Don Pedro Gallery, Carihuela (Spanien/Spain) 1969Raymont Duncan Gallery, Paris (Frankreich/France) 
2007Virginia Museum of Fine Art, USA Esslingen Triennale, Germany Contact Photo Festival, Toronto Seipppel Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa Tuscany, Italy 2006New York - Mixed Media - Painting & Photography SA University Gallery, Johannesburg, Fifties Work Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria 2005Wedge Gallery, Toronto, Canada, A Selection of Fifties South African Images Horniman Museum, UK, Kliptown Toomey Tourrell Gallery, San Francisco (USA), Selected works over 52 years Galerie Peter Tedden, Düsseldorf, Paint it loud! (Catalogue) Galerie Seippel, Köln/Cologne, Glaubens-Bilder 2004Kliptown Centre (Südafrika/South Africa), Kliptown 2003. A photo project with the work of 4 students ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Afrika), Kliptown 2003images ARCO, Madrid (Spanien/Spain) 2002La Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris (Frankreich/France), Fine Fifties Images of South Africa PhotoZa, Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Africa), Environmental Images 2001München/Munich; Mannheim; Stuttgart; Frankfurt; Berlin; Hannover, Soweto: A South African Legend 2000Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago (USA), Lengthening Shadows 1999Crake Gallery, Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Africa) Maverick Barbican Art Gallery, London (UK), Africa by Africa - A Photographic View 1998Cardiff University (UK), Under the Tropic: 25 years of South African Photojournalism 1997La Musée du Port, La Réunion (Frankreich/France), Condition Humaine 1995Foto Forum Frankfurt, South African Images 1993Herten, Fifties South Africa 1988Impressions Gallery York (UK), Drum 1987Shell Gallery, Kapstadt/Cape Town; Durban Museum, Durban; Market Gallery, Johannesburg (Südafrika/South Africa), The Finest Photos from the Old Drum 
Film: Deadline, 2000 (6 x 52 min. drama series) Drumbeats – 52 min pilot for drama series Ernest Cole: 1940-1990 Photo Journalist, 1999 (Video, 52min.) Halala Bomane! [Hail the Women!], 1996 (Video, 56min.) Jo’burg Cocktail, 1995 (Video, 56min.) Looking Back: (Video, 26 mins) Ballroom Fever, 1994 (Video, 26min.) Voices from Robben Island, 1994 (16mm, 90min.) Dolly & The Inkspots, 1994 (Video, 26min.) Drumbeats, 1993 (16mm, 56min.) The Seven Ages of Music, 1992 (Video, 46min.) War & Peace: A History of the ANC, 1989/1992 (Video, 56min.) Have You Seen Drum Recently? The Black ‘Fifties in South Africa, 1987 (35mm, 77min.) 
La Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris Victoria & Albert Museum, London Paul Sack Collection, San Francisco Neumunster Collection, Luxembourg Hopkinson School of Journalism, Cardiff University, UK President Bill Clinton Library, USA South African National Gallery, Cape Town Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa Oliwienhuis Gallery, Bloemfontein, South Africa MTN Art Collection, South Africa Sanlam Art Collection, South Africa Johannesburg Stock Exchange Collection Sasol Art Collection, South Africa Telkom Art Collection, South Africa Origins Centre, Wits University, Johannesburg Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg Fonds Nationale d’Art Contemporain, Paris Daimler Chrysler Collection, Berlin |