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Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott BiographyBerenice 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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Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams Biography Known for capturing essential landscapes along the American west, Ansel Adams established himself as one of the most influential and prolific 20th century photographers. Distinct from his contemporaries, Adams was not preoccupied with capturing shots that perfectly emulate reality; instead, he harnessed his knowledge of photographic theory and employed techniques that highlight the intricate and effervescent character of some of Earth’s greatest sites. His work evokes the same heightened sense of serenity that one feels when experiencing an element of nature for the first time. Adams was born in San Francisco in 1902. Faced with dyslexia... View artist page -
Albert Arthur Allen
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
Holly Andres BiographyHolly 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
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
Lillian Bassman BiographyLillian 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
Ruth Bernhard BiographyRuth 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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Julie Blackmon
Julie Blackmon Biography Contemporary American photographer Julie Blackmon draws much of her inspiration from the raucous tavern scenes of 17 th -century Dutch and Flemish painters, like Jan Steen. Pulling from her own family life, Blackmon creates digitally manipulated images set in familiar environments, such as a backyard barbecue or a grocery store, in which multiple narratives take place at once. Both comical and serene, her photographs focus on scenes often involving children and family of her own, saturated with pathos and a fascination with the everyday. Her work serves as a mash-up of pop phenomena, consumer culture, and social... View artist page -
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White BiographyMargaret Bourke-White was a pioneering American photojournalist whose work at home and abroad captured some of the most harrowing events of the early 20th century. Bourke-White established her career in the 1920s as a photojournalist for LIFE Magazine, documenting the Great Depression and Dust Bowl in the American midwest. She focused her lens internationally as political climates began to swelter in the 1930s, and became famous at the onset of World War II as the first female war correspondent and first woman allowed to work in combat zones.
Born in the Bronx, NY in...
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Harry Callahan
Harry Callahan BiographyHarry Callahan's photography is mainly in black and white and features portraits of his wife, Eleanor, who served as a primary subject in many of his works throughout his career. He studied engineering at Michigan State College, but never formally studied photography in a classroom. Harry Callahan discovered photography at the age of 26 in 1938. For the next sixty years, Harry Callahan's photography style would develop into an exploratory art, using many different subjects and series experiments. Harry Callahan's photos experiment with many different subjects, as he once said, “If you choose your subject selectively —...
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
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 -
Gregory Crewdson
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Frantisek Drtikol
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John Dugdale
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William Eggleston
William Eggleston BiographyWilliam 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
Walker Evans BiographyBorn 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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Robert Frank
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 Biography Lee Friedlander, an influential American photographer, is known for his innovative scenes of city streets which often features candid portraits of people, signs, and reflections of himself in store front 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, Friedlander began photographing when he was only fourteen years old. He studied photography at the Art Center School... View artist page -
Ralph Gibson
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William Gottlieb
William Gottlieb Biography William Gottlieb was an American photographer who documented the preeminent performers of the “Golden Age” of American jazz in the 1930s and 40s. Gottlieb’s photography career began when he volunteered to take photos to accompany his weekly jazz column in The Washington Post. Gottlieb was self-taught in photography, using his knack for storytelling to create captivating black and white portraits of his subjects in intimate settings. Some of his most famous subjects include Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Theolonius Monk.Born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1917, Gottlieb went... View artist page
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Thomas Harding
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Horst P. Horst
Horst P. Horst BiographyHorst P. Horst (1906-1999) was in Weissenfels-an-der-Salle, Germany. Originally channeling inspiration for shooting fashion from Baron George Hoyningen-Huene, Horst P. Horst eventually developed his own style, particularly manipulating light to highlight subjects’ features. By 1931, Horst P. Horst was shooting regularly for French Vogue, as fostered through a friendship with Hoyningen-Huene. Eight years later he made one of his most famous works, Mainbocher Corset, which featured a woman’s back strapped into a corset and published in Vogue. Horst P. Horst primarily worked in the studio, sometimes taking days to strike the right balance of light and...
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André Kertész
André Kertész BiographyPhotographer André Kertész (1894-1985) was born in Budapest, Hungary. As a child, he’d rummage in his uncle’s attic through piles of old German and Hungarian illustrated magazines. He started to develop his passion and eye for photography while working as a Budapest stock exchange clerk; he purchased his first camera and made his first photograph in 1912. After 13 years dabbling in amateur photography in Hungary — focusing on day-to-day life behind World War I battle lines and snapshots of the Hungarian countryside — Photographer André Kertész packed up and moved to Paris where he changed his...
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Dorothea Lange
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Herman Leonard
Herman Leonard BiographyHerman 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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O. Winston Link
O. Winston Link BiographyPioneer 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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Danny Lyon
Danny Lyon (born in New York, 1942) is highly regarded as one of the most influential documentary photographers of the last five decades. His many books include The Movement (1964), The Destruction of Lower Manhattan (1969), Conversations with the Dead (1971), Knave of Hearts (1999), Like a Thief’s Dream (2007), and Deep Sea Diver (2011). Lyon has been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships twice and National Endowment for the Arts grants ten times. He has been the subject of several major exhibitions at galleries including the Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Art Institute of Chicago. A...
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Robert Mapplethorpe
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Mary Ellen Mark
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Susan Meiselas
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Ray K. Metzker
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Sarah Moon
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Andrew Moore
Andrew Moore BiographyAmerican photographer Andrew Moore (born 1957) carved his place in the art world making large format color photographs. Andrew Moore's photography series — typically taken over the course of many years —capture the effect of time on natural and man-made landscapes. Andrew Moore's photography follows locales from Cuba to Russia and the United States, including slices of cities like Detroit and New York as well as broader regions including the High Plains and American South. Andrew Moore's photography take a documentary-style approach to the craft makes his work feel like a mixture of equal parts journalism and...
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Charles Moore
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Vik Muniz
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Arnold Newman
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Dorothy Norman
Dorothy Norman Biography In her photography, writing, activism, and patronage, renaissance woman Dorothy Norman left an impact on the art world through her efforts to advance both art and action. Although best known for writings and civil rights activism, Norman was equally talented as a photographer and printer, despite never self designating it a profession. While her oeuvre included landscapes and still lifes, her lens was most commonly focused on prominent figures that surrounded her in the worlds of art and politics, names like Marcel Duchamp, Albert Einstein, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Thomas Mann and Indira Ghandi. Perhaps her best known work... View artist page -
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks BiographyHumanitarian 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. Gordon Parks 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....
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Irving Penn
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Matthew Pillsbury
Matthew Pillsbury BiographyFrench-American photographer Matthew Pillsbury (1973-present) specializes in taking photos with long exposure times, using only available light. Most of Matthew Pillsbury’s photography focuses on city life, the passage of time and the relationship between both the disconnect and unification modern technology summons. His most well-known series is titled Screen Lives, and focuses on how people interact (and are absorbed by) the screens that dominate their lives. The long-exposure photographs in Screen Lives primarily feature people watching television, using their computer, and staring into mobile devices. “With computers and cellphones the question became ‘What’s representative of your use...
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Eliot Porter
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W. Eugene Smith
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Melvin Sokolsky
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Vee Speers
Vee Speers BiographyFor 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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Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Edward Weston
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Minor White
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Kohei Yoshiyuki
