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 1938 · CZECH REPUBLIC
Josef Koudelka
Stark, high-contrast black and white of exile, Roma life and ruins.
- Born
- 1938
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1968Prague 1968 (Warsaw Pact invasion)
- 1975Gypsies
- 1988Exiles
WHY THEY MATTER
Magnum Photos member; Robert Capa Gold Medal for his anonymous 1968 Prague pictures; Prix Nadar, Grand Prix Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Hasselblad Award (1992); exhibitions at MoMA, ICP, the Hayward Gallery and the Stedelijk Museum.
THE LIFE
Koudelka trained as an aeronautical engineer in Czechoslovakia before photographing Roma communities and theatre. His pictures of the invasion of Prague in August 1968 were smuggled out and published anonymously, winning the Robert Capa Gold Medal. He left the country in 1970, joined Magnum and spent years living as a nomad, work collected in Exiles. Later he turned to panoramic landscapes.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
Panoramic 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