1930–2018 · South Africa · Photographer
David Goldblatt
Quiet, analytical documentary of South African society under and after apartheid.
On the Mines (with Nadine Gordimer), 1973Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1944–2018 · IRAN
Abbas
Reportage on religion, revolution and conflict.
- Born
- 1944
- Died
- 2018
- Country
- Iran
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1992Return to Mexico, journeys beyond the mask
- 1994Allah O Akbar, a journey through militant Islam
- 2002iranDiary 1971–2002
WHY THEY MATTER
Member of Magnum Photos from 1981, after Sipa Press and Gamma; photographed the Iranian revolution from 1978 to 1980 and spent decades on world religions.
THE LIFE
Abbas Attar was an Iranian photographer based in Paris. Through the 1970s he covered wars and revolutions in Biafra, Vietnam, Bangladesh and South Africa, and from 1978 to 1980 he photographed the revolution in Iran, returning only after seventeen years of exile. He joined Magnum Photos in 1981. His later books, including Allah O Akbar and Faces of Christianity, examined religion as a political and spiritual force.
Also born in 1930–1959
1930–2014 · Nigeria · Photographer
J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere
Sculptural black-and-white studies of Nigerian women's hairstyles.
Nigerian hairstyles (series), 1968Source: Wikipedia
1930–2012 · Japan · Photographer
Shomei Tomatsu
Dark, fragmentary images of postwar Japan and American occupation.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Document, 1961Source: Wikipedia
born 1931 · Brazil · Photographer
Claudia Andujar
Lyrical, often experimental images of the Yanomami people.
Yanomami: The House, The Forest, The Invisible, 1998Source: Wikipedia
1931–2016 · Hong Kong · Photographer
Fan Ho
Geometric light-and-shadow street scenes of 1950s and 1960s Hong Kong.
Approaching Shadow, 1954Source: Wikipedia
1933–2004 · United States · Photographer
Eddie Adams
News photography of war, politics and celebrity.
Saigon Execution, 1968Source: Wikipedia