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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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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 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, 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

Margaret Bourke-White Biography

Margaret 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.

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Harry Callahan Biography Harry Callahan was born in Detroit, Michigan, on October 22, 1912. Upon graduating from the public schools of the Royal Oak suburbs, Callahan would attend Michigan State College for three semesters to study engineering. In 1933, Callahan would leave school and start working for Chrysler Parts Corporation as a shipping clerk. This same year, Callahan would meet his wife, Eleanor Knapp, who eventually served as a primary subject in many of his works throughout his photography career.

Though Callahan never formally studied photography in the classroom, he found great interest in it as a hobby at... 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

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

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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

Horst P. Horst Biography

Horst 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 Biography

André Kertész (1894-1985) was born in Budapest, Hungary. He started to develop his passion and eye for photography at a young age. He was professionally trained in the financial world and as a beekeeper, but at age 31, after 13 years dabbling in amateur photography in Hungary, André Kertész moved to Paris to fulfil his dream of pursuing a career as a photographer.

Not knowing many people or the language he struggled at first both professionally and personally. He soon began to befriend and take inspiration from the bohemian community of international artists that he met in...

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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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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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Danny Lyon Biography Danny Lyon is a self-made American filmmaker and photographer. He's also known for his writing skills, which he uses to compliment his images. Danny received a BA in history from the University of Chicago in 1963. He also published his first photographs for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, where he served as a staff photographer in the same year. His photos were featured in The Movement , a documentary book about the Southern Civil Rights Movement.

Later, Lyon moved on to writing books. His first publication was The Bikeriders (1967), which is a study of outlaw... View artist page

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Andrew Moore Biography

American 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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Vik Muniz Biography Vik Muniz, born in December 1961 in Sao Paolo, Brazil, is an influential Brazilian artist and photographer best known for his complex visual artworks, recreating memorable photographs of historical paintings and pop culture references through ordinary objects. Influenced by artists such as Man Ray and Max Ernst, Muniz's pieces are historical works and scenes that use various materials such as tomato sauce, diamonds, dirt, chocolate, jelly, toys, and trash.

Before Muniz became the critically acclaimed artist that he is, he set out as a trained sculptor. Through self-discovery, Muniz's specialized style originated from capturing a photograph... View artist page

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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. 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 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

Matthew Pillsbury Biography

French-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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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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