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 1938 · JAPAN
Daido Moriyama
Grainy, blurred, high-contrast street pictures of Japanese cities.
- Born
- 1938
- Country
- Japan
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1971Stray Dog, Misawa
- 1972Farewell Photography
- 1968Japan: A Photo Theater
WHY THEY MATTER
Leading figure of the Provoke circle; Hasselblad Award (2019); ICP Infinity Award; two-person exhibition with William Klein at Tate Modern (2012-13).
THE LIFE
Moriyama began as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe, a co-founder of the cooperative Vivo. His first photobook, Japan: A Photo Theater, appeared in 1968, and he became associated with the magazine Provoke. His pictures of postwar urban Japan use tilted angles, heavy grain, harsh contrast and blur. His 1972 book Farewell Photography tried to take the medium apart, and he received the Hasselblad Award in 2019.
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