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 · BORN 1955 · GERMANY
Andreas Gursky
Huge, digitally composed colour views of global systems and crowds.
- Born
- 1955
- Country
- Germany
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1999Rhein II
- 199999 Cent
WHY THEY MATTER
Student of Bernd Becher at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf; retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (2001); his Rhein II set an auction record for a photograph.
THE LIFE
Gursky studied at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf under Bernd and Hilla Becher. He makes very large photographs of stock exchanges, supermarkets, factories and landscapes, often digitally combined. His Rhein II sold for a record price for a photograph in 2011. The Museum of Modern Art gave him a retrospective in 2001.
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