1930–2014 · Nigeria · Photographer
J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere
Sculptural black-and-white studies of Nigerian women's hairstyles.
Nigerian hairstyles (series), 1968Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1930–2018 · SOUTH AFRICA
David Goldblatt
Quiet, analytical documentary of South African society under and after apartheid.
- Born
- 1930
- Died
- 2018
- Country
- South Africa
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1973On the Mines (with Nadine Gordimer)
- 1975Some Afrikaners Photographed
- 1989The Transported of KwaNdebele
WHY THEY MATTER
Hasselblad Award (2006); shown at Documenta (2002); his work is held in major collections including the Museum of Modern Art; Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
THE LIFE
Goldblatt spent his life photographing the people and structures of South Africa. He avoided spectacular protest pictures and instead examined the everyday conditions that apartheid created, an approach he described as dispassionate. In The Transported of KwaNdebele he followed workers on their exhausting twice-daily bus journeys between segregated homelands and jobs. He received the Hasselblad Award in 2006.
Also born in 1930–1959
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
1933–2024 · Japan · Photographer
Eikoh Hosoe
Theatrical, erotic and mythic black-and-white collaborations.
Barakei (Ordeal by Roses), 1963Source: Wikipedia