Holiday Exhibition 2024

Sid Avery Biography

Sid Avery’s candid snapshot portraiture offers a glimpse into the off-screen lives of some of the 20th century’s golden-age Hollywood’s most celebrated icons, including James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Marlon Brando, Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall, and Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward amongst others.

Sid Avery also famously photographed the original 1960 cast of “Ocean’s Eleven” and later came out of retirement to recreate that photograph with the cast of 2001’s remake. Sid Avery’s early photographs appeared in many magazines, among them the Saturday Evening Post, Look, and Colliers and...

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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

Harry Benson was born near Glasgow, Scotland. The photographer was assigned to travel with the Beatles on their first American tour in 1964. His iconic photograph shows the band in a gleeful pillow fight in a hotel room. Benson has photographed every U.S. president from Eisenhower to Trump. He was feet away when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated; in the room when Nixon resigned; with Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Meredith march; and with Coretta Scott King at her husband’s funeral. Benson chronicled the building of the Berlin wall and its fall, and covered the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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Julie Blackmon Biography Julie Blackmon is known for her meticulously composed images that explore the complexities of modern family life. Born in 1966 in Springfield, Missouri, Blackmon continues to live and work in her hometown, drawing inspiration from her personal experiences and surroundings. Blending humor, nostalgia, and social commentary, her photographs transform everyday domestic scenes into surreal and theatrical narratives that examine gender roles, societal pressures, and the intersection of the mundane and the fantastical. Influenced by artists such as Helen Levitt and Sally Mann, Blackmon crafts layered compositions that evoke both a sense of place and an underlying tension.... View artist page

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Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was a pioneering French photographer renowned for his contributions to street photography and photojournalism. Born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, France, Cartier-Bresson initially pursued painting, studying under André Lhote and embracing Surrealism. However, his fascination with photography soon took precedence, leading to a career that redefined the medium. One of Henri Cartier-Bresson ’s most iconic images, Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare (1932), captures a man mid-air over a puddle, perfectly epitomizing his concept of the 'decisive moment.' This photograph showcases his spontaneous and intuitive style, embodying the essence of capturing a fleeting instance that reveals a deeper truth. The... View artist page

Cooper & Gorfer Biography

Sarah Cooper (b.1974, US) and Nina Gorfer (b.1979, Austria) have been collaborating since 2006 and work in Sweden. Their work centers around themes of illusion, memory, and dislocation, illustrating the malleability of identity through layered pictorial collages of the female experience. Their work at times can mirror 18th and 19th century paintings, with images of distinct reference to history, myths, and cultural heritage. Cooper & Gorfer’s work range from physically layered collages with painted and embroidered materials, to photographs of disassembled images with different states of ephemeral montage. They reimagine the tradition of portraiture by visually...

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Saïdou Dicko Biography Saïdou Dicko was born in Burkina Faso in 1979. He lives and works in Paris, France. Saïdou is a self-taught visual artist (photographer, videographer, installer and painter). At the age of five, Dicko, a Fulani Shepherd, learned to draw by collecting shadows of his sheep on the Sahel soils. Naturally, the shadow is present in all of his work. In 2005, he began to experiment with photography. Six months after his photographic debut, he presented his first exhibition in the 2006 Dakar Biennial Off, where he won a prize, the first in a long series. Through painting,... View artist page

Alfred Eisenstaedt Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German-born American photographer whose photography and photojournalistic skills made him an international household name. He was born in 1898 to a Jewish family. Born in West Prussia, the family moved to Berlin in 1906. Eisenstaedt developed a passion for photography from an early age. As an 11-year-old, he took photos using an Eastman Kodak Folding Camera. However, his career as a photographer took a massive boost after he started freelance photography at Pacific and Atlantic Photo's in Berlin.

Over the years, Alfred amassed a lot of experience as a photographer. He quickly rose... View artist page

Shanequa Gay Biography Shanequa Gay is a visual artist based in Atlanta, GA, renowned for her surrealist acrylic paintings that delve into the multifaceted universes within the spirit of the Black Woman. Her artwork engages with tradition, place, storytelling, and subject matter to create imaginative dialogues and alternative self-imaging strategies. Shanequa Gay 's multidisciplinary practice spans painting, illustration, video, performance, and monumental sculpture, crafting environments filled with memorials and rituals. Through these mediums, Shanequa Gay portrays mythical figures, new deities, and images of individuals impacted by inequality. Notable works like Devout Griot and The Fair Game Project feature hybrid beings... View artist page

William Gottlieb Biography William 'Bill' Gottlieb, an American photographer renowned for documenting the 'Golden Age' of American jazz in the 1930s and 40s, captured intimate and iconic portraits of jazz legends such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Charlie Parker. Gottlieb, self-taught in photography, saw his career blossom from a passion for jazz journalism, initially writing a weekly column for The Washington Post which led William Gottlieb to photograph his own subjects. His photographs are celebrated for their storytelling quality and ability to convey the essence of jazz culture through black and white imagery. Born in Brooklyn, NY,... View artist page

Ernst Haas Biography Ernst Haas (March 2, 1921 – September 12, 1986) was a photojournalist and a pioneering color photographer . During his 40-year career, the Austrian-born artist bridged the gap between photojournalism and the use of photography as a medium for expression and creativity. In addition to his prolific coverage of events around the globe after World War II , Haas was an early innovator in color photography. His images were widely disseminated by magazines like Life and Vogue and, in 1962, were the subject of the first single-artist exhibition of color photography at New York’s Museum of Modern... View artist page

Gail Albert Halaban Biography Gail Albert Halaban is a renowned American photographer whose work explores the boundaries between intimacy and distance, privacy and public life. Known for her signature series Out My Window, Gail creates cinematic, large-scale photographs that offer voyeuristic glimpses into the lives of strangers through their windows. These works, staged in cities including New York, Paris, Italy, Istanbul, and Buenos Aires, blur the lines between reality and fiction, engaging the viewer in silent narratives of connection and isolation. Another celebrated project, Hopper Redux, reimagines Edward Hopper’s iconic scenes with contemporary subjects and settings, using photography to echo... View artist page

Erik Madigan Heck Biography

Erik Madigan Heck, an acclaimed fashion photographer, is one of the most innovative and exciting young artists in contemporary photography. Erik Madigan Heck's painterly large scale photographs are at once classic and futuristic, with influences ranging from Gustav Klimt and Edgar Degas to the high contrast color and visionary design of Pop Art or Michel Gondry.

This intersection of past and present lends both Erik Madigan Heck's first monograph and our exhibition their title – Old Future. As Susan Bright writes in her contribution to the book, published by Abrams in 2017, 'Heck flies into the...

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William Helburn Biography American fashion and advertising photographer, William Helburn, is best known for his photographs of his decade’s most elegant women, Dorian Leigh, Dovima, Suzy Parker, Jean Shrimpton, Angela Howard, Jean Patchett, Lauren Hutton, and Sharon Tate. He is a contemporary of Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and Lillian Bassman. Throughout his career Helburn aimed to grab the viewer’s attention, contextualizing his models in images that jumped off the page.

Helburn was born in New York City in 1924 and attended public and private schools in Manhattan and took classes at The Art Students League of New York, before... View artist page

William Klein Biography

Born in New York City a year before the Depression started, French photographer and filmmaker William Klein’s (1928 - present) first forays into art were through painting. Although he eventually switched gears towards the camera, he never formally studied photography, which explains his abstract approach. William Klein won his first camera during a poker game in 1946 while part of the U.S. Army stationed in Germany. He worked a brief stint as assistant to French painter and sculptor Fernand Léger’s in Paris in 1948. William Klein’s photography in fashion has appeared in magazines, books and documentary and...

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Jacques-Henri Lartigue Biography Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) was born in Courbevoie, France, but he grew up in Paris. His father, a businessman and passionate amateur photographer, gave him his first camera at the age of seven. He was very quickly attracted by movement and, after mastering the technique, took his first ‘snapshots’ of tennis, swimming, bobsledding, and other games.

From that point forward, Lartigue constantly took photos as a passion in his childhood, from automobile excursions and family holidays to crazy inventions by his older brother, Maurice. Born into wealth, the two brothers were fascinated by cars, aviation, and sports... View artist page

Herman Leonard Biography Herman Leonard was an iconic photographer renowned for his evocative images of the jazz scene from the 1940s to the 1960s. Born in 1923 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Herman Leonard developed a passion for photography at the age of nine, inspired by watching an image develop in his brother's darkroom. This early fascination shaped a career that would capture the raw emotion and vibrant energy of jazz legends like Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and Billie Holiday. Influenced by his mentor, Yousuf Karsh, and a profound conversation with Albert Einstein about improvisation, Leonard's work is celebrated for its portrayal... View artist page

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Norman Parkinson Biography

Norman Parkinson (1913-1990) was the Twentieth Century’s most celebrated fashion photographer. He pioneered epic storytelling in his images, taking portrait and fashion photography beyond the stiff formality of his predecessors and injecting an easy and casual elegance into the art. His photographs created the age of the supermodel and made him the photographer of choice for celebrities, artists, Presidents and Prime Ministers. He was a permanent fixture at historic moments photographing the British Royal Family , in private and public, as well as leading figures from the worlds of film, theatre, and music. Subjects include Audrey Hepburn...

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Kourtney Roy Biography

The Canadian photographer Kourtney Roy was born in Northern Ontario in 1981. Intrigued by the possibility of creating a tragic mythology of the self, she conjures an intimate universe pervaded by both wonder and mystery. Kourtney Roy's photographer’s eye is drawn to places and settings whose lyrical qualities underscore the sublime banality of everyday life.

Roy’s studies in photography, at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver and later at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, inspired her to develop her finicky aesthetic, which lends itself particularly well to both glossy paper and...

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Steve Schapiro Biography

Steve Schapiro was an American photojournalist who documented six decades of American culture, from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy to Andy Warhol’s Factory and the filming of The Godfather trilogy. He published a dozen books of his photographs, exhibited his work in shows from Los Angeles to Moscow, and is represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, among others. His photographs have appeared in museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide. The High Museum of Art’s...

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Mark Steinmetz Biography

Mark Steinmetz (b. 1961) is an Athens, Georgia-based photographer whose work captures black-and-white images of Southern Americana as seen in urban, rural and suburban landscapes. “I like to stress the poetry and ambiance of a place, while still trying to be truthful,” he has remarked, and his candid shots of everyday life reflect this statement. Examples of this sentiment are strikingly portrayed in Steinmetz's new photo series Terminus, showing the everyday moments of people passing through airports. “At the airport, people from all over the world and from all walks of life can be found in the...

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Bastiaan Woudt Biography For more than thirteen years photographer Bastiaan Woudt (1987) has forged a multifaceted career distinguished by an unmistakable aesthetic signature. Acclaimed for his evocative use of monochromatic tones, silhouettes, and shadow play, Bastiaan Woudt captures intimate portraits and expansive landscapes which imbue an ethereal quality while consistently maintaining a minimalist approach that underscores his artistic vision and technical mastery.

Born and raised in Bergen, Netherlands, Bastiaan Woudt discovered his passion for photography at an early age and pursued it fervently. His journey as a self-taught photographer has been marked by a dedication to exploring new... View artist page

Yamamoto Masao Biography Yamamoto Masao, born in 1957 in Gamagori City, Japan, is a renowned contemporary photographer celebrated for his poetic and intimate approach to capturing the essence of the natural world and the human experience. His work has garnered international acclaim for its delicate and evocative qualities. Yamamoto Masao’s career has been defined by a distinctive aesthetic characterized by small, handcrafted prints that he often treats as individual objects, underscoring his art's tactile and tangible nature. Over the years, Yamamoto Masao has become a prominent figure in the world of fine art photography, with a body of work that... View artist page