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 1942 · MEXICO
Graciela Iturbide
Black-and-white studies of Indigenous Mexican life, ritual and identity.
- Born
- 1942
- Country
- Mexico
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1979Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas
- 1989Juchitán de las mujeres
WHY THEY MATTER
Hasselblad Award (2008); W. Eugene Smith Award; National Prize for Arts and Sciences (Mexico); retrospectives at the Getty and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
THE LIFE
Iturbide studied film before becoming an assistant to Manuel Alvarez Bravo. She has photographed Indigenous communities in Mexico, notably the Seri people and the Zapotec women of Juchitan. Her image of a woman wearing a crown of live iguanas became famous worldwide. She received the Hasselblad Award in 2008.
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