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 · 1933–2004 · UNITED STATES
Eddie Adams
News photography of war, politics and celebrity.
- Born
- 1933
- Died
- 2004
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1968Saigon Execution
- 1977Boat of No Smiles
WHY THEY MATTER
Won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and a World Press Photo award for his Saigon execution picture; Robert Capa Gold Medal (1977) for Boat of No Smiles.
THE LIFE
Adams was born in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, and joined the US Marine Corps in 1951 as a combat photographer in the Korean War. He went on to cover thirteen wars and photograph many celebrities and politicians. On a Saigon street on 1 February 1968 he photographed General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing the Viet Cong prisoner Nguyen Van Lem, a picture that won the Pulitzer Prize. He said he would rather be known for Boat of No Smiles, his pictures of 48 Vietnamese refugees turned back to sea, which he said did some good.
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
1933–2024 · Japan · Photographer
Eikoh Hosoe
Theatrical, erotic and mythic black-and-white collaborations.
Barakei (Ordeal by Roses), 1963Source: Wikipedia