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 1957 · IRAN
Shirin Neshat
Black-and-white photographs and video on gender and power in Iran.
- Born
- 1957
- Country
- Iran
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1993Women of Allah
- 1998Turbulent
- 2009Women Without Men
WHY THEY MATTER
International Award at the XLVIII Venice Biennale (1999); Silver Lion for best director at the 66th Venice Film Festival (2009).
THE LIFE
Neshat is an Iranian artist who lives and works in New York. Her photographic series Women of Allah showed portraits of women overlaid with Persian calligraphy. She went on to make video installations such as Turbulent, which won the International Award at the Venice Biennale in 1999. Her feature film Women Without Men won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2009.
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