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 1954 · UNITED STATES
Cindy Sherman
Staged self-portraits that interrogate roles, stereotypes and images.
- Born
- 1954
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1977Untitled Film Stills
- 1992Sex Pictures (series)
WHY THEY MATTER
MacArthur Fellow; Hasselblad Award; retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 2012.
THE LIFE
Sherman photographs herself in invented roles, but her pictures are not self-portraits in the usual sense. Her Untitled Film Stills, begun in 1977, imitated publicity stills from films that never existed. Later series took on fashion, history portraits, clowns and ageing. The Museum of Modern Art held a major retrospective in 2012.
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