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 1948 · UNITED STATES
Susan Meiselas
Collaborative documentary that returns pictures to the people in them.
- Born
- 1948
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1976Carnival Strippers
- 1981Nicaragua
WHY THEY MATTER
Magnum Photos member; MacArthur Fellow; Robert Capa Gold Medal; Deutsche Borse Photography Prize.
THE LIFE
Meiselas began with Carnival Strippers, a study of women working at New England fairs. She covered the insurrection in Nicaragua and conflicts in Central America. She later built Kurdistan, a collective visual history of the Kurdish people. She is a member of Magnum Photos and a MacArthur Fellow.
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