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 1940 · JAPAN
Nobuyoshi Araki
Diaristic, often erotic photography of Tokyo life, love and death.
- Born
- 1940
- Country
- Japan
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1971Sentimental Journey
- 1990Tokyo Lucky Hole
WHY THEY MATTER
Among the most prolific Japanese artists, with over 500 books; four of his books appear in Parr and Badger's photobook history.
THE LIFE
Araki studied film and photography at Chiba University and worked at the advertising agency Dentsu, where he met his future wife, the essayist Yoko Aoki. Sentimental Journey recorded their married life, and Winter Journey her last days before she died in 1990. His work often blends eroticism and bondage in a fine-art context, and he has published over 500 books. In 2018 a model who had worked with him for years publicly described exploitative treatment.
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