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 1939 · UNITED STATES
William Eggleston
Saturated colour pictures of the ordinary American South.
- Born
- 1939
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1976William Eggleston's Guide
- 1973The Red Ceiling
WHY THEY MATTER
His 1976 MoMA exhibition helped legitimise colour photography as art; Guggenheim Fellowship (1974); Hasselblad Award (1998); Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.
THE LIFE
Eggleston grew up in the Mississippi Delta and photographed the everyday scenes of the American South. In 1976 the Museum of Modern Art showed his colour work in a landmark exhibition, with the book William Eggleston's Guide. Many critics then dismissed colour as commercial, and the show changed that. He used dye transfer printing to give his pictures their deep, saturated colour.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
Leica, Dye transfer printing
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