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
Sally Mann
Large-format, often wet-plate black and white of family and the American South.
- Born
- 1951
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1992Immediate Family
- 2003What Remains
WHY THEY MATTER
Named America's Best Photographer by Time magazine (2001); Immediate Family was first exhibited in 1990 and drew national controversy.
THE LIFE
Mann grew up in Lexington, Virginia, where she still lives and works. Her book Immediate Family, pictures of her three young children, drew praise and controversy. She later photographed Southern landscapes, battlefields and decay, often using the nineteenth-century collodion wet-plate process. Time magazine named her America's Best Photographer in 2001.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
8x10 view camera, Collodion wet plate
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