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 1948 · JAPAN
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Long-exposure, large-format meditations on time and light.
- Born
- 1948
- Country
- Japan
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1980Seascapes
- 1978Theatres
- 1976Dioramas
WHY THEY MATTER
Hasselblad Award (2001); Praemium Imperiale (2009); shown at museums from the Hirshhorn to the Fondation Cartier.
THE LIFE
Sugimoto was born in Tokyo, studied at Rikkyo University and then at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena before settling in New York. His long-running series include Dioramas, begun in 1976 in natural history museums, and Theaters, in which a whole film is exposed onto one frame. His Seascapes, begun in 1980, reduce the world to water, air and horizon. He also leads the architectural firm New Material Research Laboratory.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
8x10 view camera
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