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 1944 · GERMANY
Candida Hofer
Empty, symmetrical colour interiors of libraries, theatres and museums.
- Born
- 1944
- Country
- Germany
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 2005Libraries
- 1979Turks in Germany
WHY THEY MATTER
Represented Germany at the Venice Biennale (2003) with Martin Kippenberger; studied under Bernd Becher.
THE LIFE
Hofer studied at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf under Bernd Becher. She photographs public interiors such as libraries, opera houses and museums, usually without people. Her calm, frontal pictures reveal how buildings organise knowledge and culture. She represented Germany at the 2003 Venice Biennale.
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