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 1953 · UNITED STATES
Nan Goldin
Diaristic colour snapshots of friends, love and loss.
- Born
- 1953
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1986The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
- 1993The Other Side
WHY THEY MATTER
Retrospectives at the Whitney Museum and Moderna Museet; Hasselblad Award (2007); her activism is the subject of the Oscar-nominated All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.
THE LIFE
Goldin photographed her friends and lovers in the downtown scenes of Boston and New York from the 1970s onward. Her slideshow The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, screened at the Whitney Biennial in 1985 and published as a book in 1986, became a landmark of intimate photography. Her work recorded the HIV/AIDS crisis among her circle. She later founded the advocacy group Prescription Addiction Intervention Now to campaign against the Sackler family over the opioid crisis.
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