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 · 1940–2015 · UNITED STATES
Mary Ellen Mark
Empathetic documentary portraits of people living on the margins.
- Born
- 1940
- Died
- 2015
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1979Ward 81
- 1981Falkland Road
- 1988Streetwise (book)
WHY THEY MATTER
Magnum member, three-time Robert F. Kennedy Journalism awardee, Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of many photography honours.
THE LIFE
Mark photographed people outside mainstream society, including runaway teenagers, psychiatric patients and street performers. Her work on homeless youth in Seattle led to the film Streetwise, directed by her husband Martin Bell. She published many books and worked for Life, Rolling Stone and The New Yorker. She was a member of Magnum Photos for several years.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
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