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 · 1930–2012 · JAPAN
Shomei Tomatsu
Dark, fragmentary images of postwar Japan and American occupation.
- Born
- 1930
- Died
- 2012
- Country
- Japan
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1961Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Document
- 1966<11:02> Nagasaki
- 1975Pencil of the Sun
WHY THEY MATTER
Shown in New Japanese Photography at MoMA (1974); Sakura + Plastics was the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first solo exhibition of a living Japanese artist (1992); influenced the Provoke generation.
THE LIFE
Tomatsu was born in Nagoya and grew up during the war, and the American occupation that followed shaped his whole career. In 1960 he was commissioned to photograph Nagasaki, and his pictures of survivors led to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Document with Ken Domon and later to <11:02> Nagasaki. From 1969 he photographed the American bases on Okinawa, where he eventually settled. He influenced the younger photographers around the magazine Provoke, including Daido Moriyama.
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
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
1933–2024 · Japan · Photographer
Eikoh Hosoe
Theatrical, erotic and mythic black-and-white collaborations.
Barakei (Ordeal by Roses), 1963Source: Wikipedia