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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. She 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. Her first solo show was...

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Albert Arthur Allen Biography Albert Arthur Allen (1886-1962) was known for his nude portraiture during the 1920’s. Though he claimed his purpose for capturing women in the nude was to carve pathways towards gender equality, audiences largely wrote off Allen’s work as obscene. His use of classical motifs as manifested throughout his subjects’ poses exhibits timeless qualities, deeming his work still contemporarily relevant.

Born into a wealthy family in Grafton, MA, Allen set off to Oakland, CA upon his twentieth birthday to study fine art photography. In 1916, he opened his own studio: the Allen Institute of Fine Art. Allen... View artist page

Holly Andres Biography

Holly Andres uses photography to examine the complexities of childhood, the fleeting nature of memory, and female introspection. Typically Holly Andres’ photography relies on a tension between an apparently approachable subject matter and a darker, sometimes disturbing subtext. She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Seattle, Istanbul, Turkey and Portland Oregon where she lives and works. Holly Andres’ photography has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Time, Art in America, Artforum, Exit Magazine, Art News, Modern Painters, Oprah Magazine, Elle Magazine, W, The LA Times, Glamour, Blink and Art...

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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. She 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 lead to Lillian Bassman’s distinguished career photographing the foremost models of her day. Renowned for her innovative work in the darkroom, Lillian Bassman experimented by printing through unique materials, burning certain areas, or bleaching sections of the photograph to create images that appeared to be a cross between a watercolor and a photograph. Lillian Bassman’s photography has been featured internationally...

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Ruth Bernhard Biography

Ruth Bernhard was a distinguished 20th-century photographer known for her classical black-and-white photographs of the female nude and inanimate objects. In 1935, she met Edward Weston and became part of Group f/64, joining Modernist West Coast photographers like Weston, Ansel Adams, Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Wynn Bullock, and Dorothea Lange. The group took a purist approach to their subjects, and their work is characterized by photographic clarity and detailed precision.

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Josef Breitenbach Biography German photographer Josef Breitenbach was known for his experimental manipulated images and stark photographs. Raised with an intelligent respect for the history of art and culture, he worked with an attentive understanding and appreciation for a multitude of styles and artistic expressions. Breitenbach focused on form and abstraction as well as the sensual and psychological side of his subjects. In his work Breitenbach experimented with a number of techniques including bleaching, color printing, montage, solarization, and double exposure. He was most interested in using photography and color for their transformative and expressive potential. He refused to be... 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

Lucien Clergue Biography French photographer Lucien Clergue was a pioneering photographer who dedicated his career to elevating photography to a high art during times when the leading artistic medium was painting. Clergue’s work included landscapes, portraits, still lives and studies of the female nude which generated particular acclaim. He is well known for his black-and-white portraits of Pablo Picasso who was an early advocate of Clergue’s practice and became a lifelong friend and collaborator. Clergue’s autobiographical book, Picasso My Friend , looks back on important moments of their relationship.

Lucien Clergue was born in the coastal town of Arles,... 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. He 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 visual...

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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 documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Walker Evans' photography from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera. Walker Evans said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are 'literate, authoritative, transcendent'. Walker Evan’s photos are featured in the permanent collections of museums, and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Nat Fein Biography Nat Fein (1914 – 2000) was an American photographer most well-known for photographing Babe Ruth, capturing the famous baseball player on the pitch for the last time before his death and winning the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for the photograph, The Babe Bows Out . Fein called himself, “just a human-interest photographer,” although he took thousands of photographs evoking life in New York and carried the distinction of having taken the most celebrated photograph in sports history by the New York Times in 1992. Known for setting a scene correctly, he would climb buildings and bridges to get... 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

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Lynn Geesaman Biography

Born in Cleveland in 1938, Lynn Geesaman was introduced to photography while studying physics at Wellesley College. An interest in gardens led to research, travel and photography in England, France, Belgium, Italy and Germany. New to Lynn Geesaman's photography is her use of brilliant color. Through meticulous darkroom printing, we are confronted with glowing yellow trees, glistening orange foliage and soft green waters that challenge our perception of natures' colors. Lynn Geesaman has exhibited widely in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe including Bibliothéque Nationale de France, Paris; The American Cultural Center, Brussels; The Minneapolis...

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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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Loretta Lux Biography

Trained as a painter, Loretta Lux began experimenting with photography in 1999 and has since become known for her uncanny photographs of children. Her young subjects range in age from two to nine and are the sons and daughters of her friends. She dresses them in 1970s vintage clothing and poses them precisely; they appear inscrutable, poised between knowingness and innocence. “My work isn’t about these children,” she once explained. “You can recognize them, but they are alienated from their real appearance—I use them as a metaphor for innocence and a lost paradise.” Using Photoshop to manipulate...

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Gordon Parks Biography

Humanitarian photographer Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was born into segregated Kansas in 1912. Gordon Parks' photography style developed from a fellowship chronicling extreme poverty and social conditions for the Farm Security Administration, under the mentorship of Roy Stryker. Gordon Parks also worked as a filmmaker and memoirist, breaking color boundaries across the board. He captured arresting images highlighting deeply problematic oppression and racism across the nation, including the notable American Gothic, Washington, D.C. (1942), featuring F.S.A. chairperson Ella Watson posed with a broom and mop, staring blankly ahead and standing in front of an unfurled American flag. Gordon...

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Vee Speers Biography

Fine art photographer Vee Speers (1962-present) was born in Newcastle, Australia. Vee Speers' photography is best known for her painterly and surreal portraits. Though subject matter varies, Vee Speers tends to investigate themes related to youth, glamour, sex and immortality. She studied photography in Brisbane before moving to Paris in 1990 to work in fashion and photojournalism, where she continues to reside today. Celebrated series The Birthday Party (2004) follows a group of children — Vee's daughter and her friends — dressed as monsters they created; the life-sized images feel both timeless and bizarre, pulled off by...

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