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 1934 · UNITED STATES
Lee Friedlander
Dense, layered frames of the social landscape, full of reflections and poles.
- Born
- 1934
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1970Self Portrait
- 1976The American Monument
WHY THEY MATTER
Featured in MoMA's New Documents (1967); MacArthur Fellow; Hasselblad Award winner; major MoMA retrospective in 2005.
THE LIFE
Friedlander has photographed what he called the American social landscape since the 1950s. His frames are crowded with signs, reflections, shadows and poles that split the view. He was one of three photographers in MoMA's New Documents exhibition in 1967. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship and the Hasselblad Award.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
Leica, Hasselblad
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