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 · 1952–2025 · UNITED KINGDOM
Martin Parr
Satirical, saturated colour documentary of leisure and consumption.
- Born
- 1952
- Died
- 2025
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1986The Last Resort
- 1999Common Sense
WHY THEY MATTER
Magnum Photos member and president; retrospective at the Barbican; founder of the Martin Parr Foundation.
THE LIFE
Parr was a British documentary photographer known for satirical, close-up colour pictures of everyday life. The Last Resort, made in the seaside town of New Brighton, drew both praise and accusations of mocking its subjects. He joined Magnum Photos in 1994 after a divisive vote and later served as its president. He was also a major collector of photobooks and set up the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
Plaubel Makina, Ring flash
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