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 1946 · CANADA
Jeff Wall
Staged, cinematic tableaux shown as large backlit transparencies.
- Born
- 1946
- Country
- Canada
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1978The Destroyed Room
- 1993A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)
- 1992Dead Troops Talk
WHY THEY MATTER
Hasselblad Award (2002); retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and Tate Modern.
THE LIFE
Wall is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver. From the late 1970s he made large backlit transparencies that look like documents but are carefully staged, often with references to painting. His works include The Destroyed Room and A Sudden Gust of Wind. He received the Hasselblad Award in 2002.
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