• Gail Albert Halaban

    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

  • Sally Mann

    Sally Mann Biography

    Born in Lexington, Virginia, Sally Mann began to study photography in the late 1960s, attending the Ansel Adams Gallery’s Yosemite Workshops in Yosemite National Park, California, and the Putney School and Bennington College, both in Vermont. She received a BA from Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia, in 1974 and an MA in creative writing the following year. At a moment when many other photographers were creating large-scale color prints, Mann looked to photography’s past, investigating the visual and metaphorical potential of employing nineteenth-century technologies. She has long used an 8 x 10 bellows camera and has explored platinum,...

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  • Gordon Parks

    Gordon Parks Biography

    In a career that spanned more than fifty years, photographer, filmmaker, musician, and author Gordon Parks (American, 1912–2006) created a groundbreaking body of work that made him one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Beginning in the 1940s, he documented American life and culture with a focus on social justice, race relations, the civil rights movement, and the African American experience. Born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, Parks was drawn to photography as a young man. Despite his lack of professional training, he won a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship in 1942; this...

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