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 1949 · UNITED STATES
Annie Leibovitz
Theatrical, carefully lit celebrity portraits.
- Born
- 1949
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1980John Lennon and Yoko Ono (Rolling Stone cover)
- 1991Demi Moore (Vanity Fair cover)
WHY THEY MATTER
Chief photographer at Rolling Stone, then Vanity Fair and Vogue; first woman given an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington; Library of Congress Living Legend.
THE LIFE
Leibovitz joined Rolling Stone in 1970 and became its chief photographer. She photographed John Lennon and Yoko Ono hours before Lennon was killed in 1980. She moved to Vanity Fair and later Vogue, where her staged portraits became known worldwide. The Library of Congress named her a Living Legend.
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