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Berenice Abbott Biography

Berenice Abbott was a central figure in and important bridge between the photographic circles and cultural hubs of Paris and New York. Berenice Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio, and in 1918 moved to New York, where she studied sculpture independently, meeting and making vital connections with Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, leaders of the American avant-garde. In 1921, Berenice Abbott moved to Paris and continued her study of sculpture there and, later, in Berlin, before returning to Paris and becoming an assistant at the Man Ray Studio, where she would master photography. Berenice Abbott's first solo...

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Holly Andres Biography Holly Andres, a Portland-based photographer and director has made waves on the art scene for over a decade. Her portraiture is cinematic in feel and often depicts young girls in activities, haloed in childhood innocence and yet has a darker, more poignant meaning when looked at with a fixed eye. She uses photography to examine the complexities of childhood, the fleeting nature of memory, and female introspection.

Holly named her inspiration as her two older sisters for her critically acclaimed The Fallen Fawn series. They once found a suitcase full of women's items and fashions by... View artist page

Diane Arbus Biography American photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971) did the work of subverting both social and artistic mores through her black-and-white portraits of vulnerable individuals in intensly personal moments. She frequently wandered around New York City with her camera, capturing groups and individuals who have historically occupied a space stigmatized by normative social structures. Her work exhibits a diverse range of marginalized identities, including subjects with mental illness, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and subjects embodying the essence of the middle class.

Born into a wealthy New York family in 1923, Arbus began engaging with art from a young... View artist page

Lillian Bassman Biography Lillian Bassman (1917 - 2012) was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents she once described as “bohemian.” This fashion photographer fell in love fast with the photographs of dancer Isadora Duncan in her flowing, floating gowns, inspiring Lillian’s affinity for scarves which she attributed to Isadora’s sinuous, constantly moving fabrics.

Lillian worked as a textile designer and fashion illustrator before working at Harper’s Bazaar in 1946. In 1949, she photographed her first Paris couture collection, which led to Lillian Bassman’s distinguished career as a photographer of the era’s leading models. However, she once claimed it... View artist page

Ruth Bernhard Biography Ruth Bernhard, a German-born American photographer, began her artistic career at the Berlin Academy of Arts in 1925. After two years of studying at the Berlin Academy of Arts, Bernhard moved to New York, New York to live with her graphic designer father, Lucian Bernhard. It was there she landed a job as a darkroom assistant to Ralph Steiner, head of the photography department for Delineator magazine. While her role as the darkroom assistant to Steiner was brief, she eventually found herself making her first camera equipment purchase shortly after, beginning her journey in freelance photography.

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Julie Blackmon Biography Contemporary American photographer Julie Blackmon draws inspiration from the raucous tavern scenes of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painters, creating photographs based around the people and places in her small community.

Blackmon has compared her surroundings to a giant Hollywood prop closet, where a Starbucks employee out on a smoke break may appear in her next photograph, or the beauty shop she passes every day becomes the setting for a new piece. “It’s a fun perspective to have … to see the world around you as a potential story or idea. It changes how you see things.... View artist page

Henri Cartier-Bresson French photographer and artist Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) tirelessly worked as a prolific photojournalist from the 1930s up until his death in 2004. A hand-held Leica camera accompanied the young artist as he wandered Paris; the young artist helped pioneer the then-burgeoning street photography movement. Henri Cartier-Bresson’s work may best be crystallized in his image, Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare (1932), which features a man in suspended mid-air as he sails over a placid puddle behind the Gare Saint-Lazare train station; he had a knack for catching impossibly quick moments as they unfolded around him. Henri Cartier-Bresson also co-founded the... View artist page

Roy DeCarva Biography Roy DeCarava was an African American artist known for his photographs portraying Black American life on the streets of cities like New York and Washington, DC. His images illustrate the everyday intimacy between people, places and objects. He is most well-known for his photographs of famous jazz musicians but in addition to those he captured the interactions between ordinary people as well as the mysteriousness and strangeness of city life. Over a career that spanned nearly six decades, DeCarava came to be known as a founder in the field of black-and-white photography, advocating for an approach to... View artist page

William Eggleston Biography

William Eggleston (American, b.1939) is a photographer who was instrumental in making color photography an acceptable and revered form of art, worthy of gallery display. William Eggleston's photography is widely known for his colorful, vibrant photos of everyday subject matter such as storefronts, cars, buildings, and more. Born and raised in the South, William Eggleston was the son of an engineer and a local judge. William Eggleston spent his childhood drawing, playing piano, and tinkering with electronics. William Eggleston found great joy in cutting out the pictures in magazines and purchasing postcards, and had a love of...

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Walker Evans Biography Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1903, photographer Walker Evans took up photography in 1928.

Walker Evans is best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of the Interior documenting the effects of The Great Depression. His focus was the government-run resettlement community that housed unemployed West Virginia coal miners.

Much of Walker Evans' change to photography from the FSA period in 1935-36 uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera. His goal was to show Americans how the government was helping fix the myriad of problems associated with poverty during The... View artist page

Robert Frank Biography Swiss-born American filmmaker and photographer, Robert Frank (1924- 2019) most often captured people in the throes of daily life. “There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment,” he once said. “This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough- there has to be a vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.” Frank saw the world in a way that was at odds with commonly perceived visual clichés of his time, but which was definitely more truthful. He has a fresh and nuanced outsider’s view of American society.... View artist page

Lee Friedlander Lee Friedlander, an influential American photographer, is known for his innovative scenes of city streets which often feature candid portraits of people, signs, and reflections of himself in storefront windows. Friedlander has the ability to organize an endless amount of visual information in dynamic compositions and makes humorous and poignant images among the chaos of city life. Friedlander’s street photography captures the abrupt overlaps of light and content in urban landscapes.

Born in 1934 in Aberdeen, Washington, Lee Friedlander began photographing when he was only fourteen years old. He studied photography at the Art Center School in... View artist page

Lynn Geesaman Biography Born in Cleveland in 1938, Lynn Geesaman was introduced to photography while studying physics at Wellesley College, from which she graduated in 1960. She took up photography starting in the 1980s as she developed an interest in gardens that led to research, travel, and photography in England, France, Belgium, Italy, and Germany.

Looking at Lynn Geesaman’s photos, one might see an ethereal, fantasy-like quality to them. Her subjects included topiaries, formal gardens popular in Europe, and ancient landscapes pruned and sculpted by gardeners for hundreds of years to achieve the desired effects. They almost look like... View artist page

Katy Grannan Biography

Katy Grannan is a contemporary American photographer best known for her intimate portraits of strangers. Grannan’s process and the consequent images are informed by her own childhood and the American northeast. Each photograph is imbued with secrecy, desire, and hidden intentions. “I have a terror of things being nice as knowing what to expect,” she explained. “Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have.”

Grannan was born in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1969. She received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991, and an MA from Harvard University in...

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Michael Kenna Biography

British photographer Michael Kenna (1953-present) is best known for his black-and-white landscape photography in which he often utilizes drawn-out exposure times, some up to 10 hours in length. Most of Michael Kenna’s photography is taken at dawn or at night, and he has commented that 'you can't always see what's otherwise noticeable during the day … with long exposures you can photograph what the human eye is incapable of seeing.' He cites fellow British photographer Bill Brandt as a primary influence; in fact, after Brandt died in 1983, Michael Kenna paid tribute by visiting and photographing a...

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Herman Leonard Biography

Herman Leonard was born in Allentown, PA in 1923. At the young age of 9, he witnessed an image being developed in his brother’s darkroom and became enthralled with the magic of photography.

In 1947, after a stint in Burma during WWII, Herman Leonard graduated from Ohio University with a BFA in Photography, the only school in the nation to offer such a degree at the time. He then drove straight to Yousuf Karsh’s house in Ottowa, Canada and asked for a job. Karsh wasn’t hiring but was impressed enough with young Herman Leonard to take him...

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Helen Levitt Biography Helen Levitt's photographs bring to life the streets of New York City by documenting the local communities in an honest and playful way. Her award-winning work spans 60 years, capturing children's chalk drawings of the 1930s sidewalks to everyday life in the 1990s.

Over time, her photographs captured the social and economical changes in New York. Her earlier photographs showed streets filled with people walking and children playing. By the late 1960s to the 1980s, the streets became more aggressive, bustling with activity, cars, and the obsession with capitalism becoming clearer.

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O. Winston Link Biography

Pioneer American photographer, O. Winston Link, is a commercial photographer best known for his images of steam locomotives. Unlike the street photography of Link’s time which was dependent on the natural light available, Link used a shooting method that was truly unique. His technique employed elaborate staging and synchronized flashes on a large scale. He developed new forms of lighting equipment, rigging 43 flash bulbs to strike simultaneously in his effort to capture the locomotives in action at night. In addition, Link used a large-format camera as opposed to the popular 35mm.

Link was born in...

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Irving Penn Biography Irving Penn, an American photographer most notably known for his more than sixty years of work and sophisticated fashion images in numerous issues of Vogue magazine, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey. His rise in art and photography began when he first attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts in 1934. While he initially viewed himself as an aspiring painter, his career course shifted when he began studying design with Alexey Brodovitch, his teacher and mentor. During his time studying with Brodovitch, Irving Penn studied painting, drawing, industrial arts, and graphics. This encounter ultimately allowed Irving... View artist page

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Vee Speers Biography

For over two decades, Australian French artist Vee Speers has established herself in the art world with her unforgettable portraits. Her carefully choreographed images are painterly and ethereal, with a visual and metaphorical ambiguity which challenges established narratives.

Her work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, art fairs and festivals around the world, and been published in features and on covers of more than 60 international magazines, with 3 sold-out monographs of her work. Her photographs have been acquired by Sir Elton John Collection, Michael Wilson Collection, Hoffman Collection U.S. , Carter Potash Collection, Morten Viskum Collection,...

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