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 1953 · UNITED STATES
Carrie Mae Weems
Staged and archival photography on race, gender and power.
- Born
- 1953
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1990The Kitchen Table Series
- 2012Equivalents
WHY THEY MATTER
MacArthur Fellow (2013); her 30-year retrospective opened at the Guggenheim Museum in 2014; first Black woman to win the Hasselblad Award (2023).
THE LIFE
Weems is an American artist who uses photography, film and video to examine race, gender and class. She taught at Hampshire College in the late 1980s and made The Kitchen Table Series at her home in Western Massachusetts between 1989 and 1990. A 30-year retrospective opened at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2014. In 2023 she became the first Black woman to win the Hasselblad Award.
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