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 1959 · NETHERLANDS
Rineke Dijkstra
Large frontal colour portraits of adolescents and people in transition.
- Born
- 1959
- Country
- Netherlands
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1992Beach Portraits
- 1999Israeli Soldiers
WHY THEY MATTER
Retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum (2012); Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (1999); Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.
THE LIFE
Dijkstra is a Dutch photographer known for large colour portraits of people at moments of transition. Her Beach Portraits, begun in 1992, show adolescents standing against the sea in near life-size prints. She has worked in series on adolescents, clubbers and soldiers, including Israeli Soldiers. The Guggenheim held a retrospective of her work in 2012.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
4x5 view camera
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