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 · 1942–1999 · INDIA
Raghubir Singh
Dense, warm colour pictures of Indian street life.
- Born
- 1942
- Died
- 1999
- Country
- India
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1974Ganga: Sacred River of India
- 1987Banaras
WHY THEY MATTER
Major exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2017); pioneer of colour street photography in India.
THE LIFE
Singh was born in Jaipur and became a pioneer of colour photography when most serious photographers worked in black and white. His books on the Ganges, Banaras, Calcutta and Rajasthan pictured Indian life in rich, crowded colour. He worked for magazines such as National Geographic and The New York Times. The Metropolitan Museum of Art showed his work in 2017.
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