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 1951 · UNITED STATES
Nick Ut
Wire-service news photography.
- Born
- 1951
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1972The Terror of War
- 2007Paris Hilton (in a Sheriff's cruiser)
WHY THEY MATTER
Won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and World Press Photo of the Year for The Terror of War.
THE LIFE
Ut is a Vietnamese-American photographer who worked for the Associated Press for over fifty years. In June 1972 he photographed children fleeing a napalm strike in Trang Bang, among them nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc. He then took her to hospital. The picture won the Pulitzer Prize and the World Press Photo of the Year.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
Leica
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