December 2018
Vivian Maier
Dorothea Lange
February 2019
Robert Frank
(1924)
American (b. Switzerland)
March 2019
Ansel Adams
Photographs
The “Supreme Master
of Landscape Photography”.
https://shop.anseladams.com/Ansel_Adams_Originals_s/71.htm
April 2019
Robert Capa
Robert Capa
Robert Capa
- (Endre Friedmann) is considered the unique visual chronicler who covered five
wars directly from the battlefield. He made his mark in the world and the
Hungarian history of photography.
May 2019
Sebastião Salgado
Brazilian social
documentary photographer and photojournalist. He has traveled in over 120
countries for his photographic projects documenting the poor and powerless, as
well as the grandeur of nature, in analog black-and-white photographs that are
both highly formal and unflinchingly documentary.
The Salt of
the Earth
Documentary,
Biography, History |1h 50min
The life
and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years
documenting deprived societies in hidden corners of the world.
Directors:
Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
Writers:
Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado | 1 more credit »
Stars: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Lélia
Wanick Salgado
June 2019
W. Eugene
Smith
Born in
Wichita, Kansas, on 30 December 1918 and became a new photographer at the age
of 15. He won a photographic scholarship to Notre Dame University and left in
1937 to become a photographer for Newsweek magazine. During World War II he was
a correspondent photographer and covered numerous invasions and air combat
missions. He worked for Flying magazine, Life and in 1955 he joined the
international photographic agency Magnum.Today,
Smith’s legacy lives on through the W. Eugene Smith Fund (1980) to
promote ‘humanistic photography’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLDI6oHukJg
July 2019
WILLIAM EGGLESTON
American
photographer who is best known for his successful efforts to increase the
recognition of color photography as an artistic medium, which has been widely
known for its monochromatic images. His portraits and landscapes of the
American South reframed the history of the medium and its relationship to color
photography. The
artist’s experiments with color film during the 1960s challenged the
conventions of photography.
Eggleston
currently lives and works in Memphis, TN. His works are held in the J. Paul
Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.,
the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Whitney Museum of American
Art in New York, among others.
http://www.egglestontrust.com/
http://www.egglestontrust.com/
WALKER
EVANS
One of the
leading photographers in the history of American documentary photography. Although
self-taught in photography, was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum
of Modern Art.
Worked for
the Farm Security Administration from 1935 to 1937, during which time he made
many of the photographs that elucidated the whole tragedy of the Great
Depression. He received
three Guggenheim Fellowships , was a member of the National Institute of Arts
and Letters and worked as a staff photographer for Time and Fortune. For fifty
years, Evans recorded the American scene creating an encyclopedic visual
catalogue of modern America in the making. His photographs were as prototypes
both for the American documentary movement of the 1930s and for street
photographers of the 1940s and 50s.
September 2019
IRVING PENN
American
photographer went on to become one of the great photographers of the 20th
century. He’s renowned for breaking down the boundary between commercial and
fine-art photography, working in a style of refined, elegant minimalism. Using both
large format and 35mm cameras, he regularly turned his lens on street debris,
animal skulls, and flowers, in addition to his glamorous images of celebrities.
Born on
June 16, 1917 in Plainfield, NJ, he studied art and design before moving to New York in
1938.Around this
time, he began taking black-and-white photographs. In 1943, the director of Vogue magazine
hired Penn as a designer for the publication, and encouraging him to
pursue a career in fashion photography. He
shot for Vogue from 1943 to 2009, creating 163 covers.
By the
early 1950s, the artist had established himself as an important photographer in
the industry and served advertising
clients like Clinique, Chanel, Issey Miyake, L’Oreal, Versace, and even Jello
Pudding!. He made
some of the most iconic photographic portraits in history, including those of
Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and Truman Capote.
The artist
founded the Irving Penn Foundation in 2005, a non-profit which was established
to promote his legacy.
His work
has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art,
the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian, The Art Institute of Chicago,
the J. Paul Getty Museum, and many top galleries. He died on
October 7, 2009 in New York, NY at the age of 92.
https://www.christies.com/features/Guide-to-Irving-Penn-9751-1.aspx
October 2019
DIANE ARBUS
Arbus was an American photographer who is
nowadays widely known for her portrayal of New Yorkers in the 1950s and the
1960s by using the techniques of documentary or photojournalistic photography.
She was fascinated with the unusual, and
because of this fact she was quickly labeled “the photographer of freaks”.
Her raw, unusual images of the people she
saw while living in New York created a unique and interesting portrayal of the
city. Tattooed men, circus performers, transgender and disabled people were
among her most iconic models.
Through her remarkable work, she
highlighted the importance of equality at a time when not many people were willing
to face the marginalized and recognize them as a functioning part of society.
A biographical movie about came out in 2006
and it’s called “Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus” with Nicole Kidman
& Robert Downey Jr.
November 2019
ANDRE
KERTESZ
A Hungarian-born photographer is widely regarded as one of Europe’s
leading photographic artists, best known for his contributions to photojournalism,
employing distinctively dynamic compositions throughout his influential photo
essays. Although he failed to gain popular recognition in the early stages of
his career, his later photographs, including works such as The Fork (1928),
Melancholic Tulip (1939) and Washington Square, New York (1954) are now amongst
the most famous photographs of the twentieth century. Kertész's work had widespread and diverse
effects on many photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and
Brassaï, who counted him as a mentor during the late 1920s and early 1930s. He
went on to work for magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Collier's and
House & Garden, as well as mounting solo shows at the Art Institute of
Chicago in 1946 and at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1964. Between
1963 and his death, his independently produced photographs became more widely
accessible, and Kertész became one of the most respected photographers in
America and inspired countless other contemporary photographers.
http://www.artnet.com/artists/andr%C3%A9-kert%C3%A9sz/https://huxleyparlour.com/artists/andre-kertesz/
LEWIS HINE
American sociologist and photographer. He was born in Wisconsin and
studied sociology and social work at the University of Chicago, Columbia
University, and New York University. He moved to New York City in 1903 to
become a teacher at the Ethical Culture School. He took up photography in 1905,
and soon left teaching in order to concentrate on “the visual side of public
education”. The the National Child Labor Committee hired him to photograph
working children in order to raise awareness of the abuses of child labor. His
photos and reports, produced between 1908 and 1924, fueled public opinion and
inspired Congress to enact national child labor legislation.
Late in
World War I, Hine served as a photographer with the Red Cross. After the
Armistice he remained with the Red Cross in the Balkans, and in 1919 he
published the photo story The Children’s Burden in the Balkans. In the
1930s Hine was recognized by early historians of photography, as an early
exemplar of documentary style and intent.
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/lewis-wickes-hine?all/all/all/all/0
January 2020
February 2020
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM
Is renowned as one of the greatest American women
photographers best known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial
landscapes. She became a self taught photographer at the age of 18, as she
saved enough money to purchase her first camera.Cunningham’s early work
consisted of soft focus and blurred imagery, which gave a mystery to the
photographed figure. As she began experimenting with sharper, crisper images
she began to create a style known as sharp focus photography.With a small group
of photographers, the California-based Group f/64, which included Edward Weston
and Ansel Adams, she pioneered the renewal of photography on the West Coast.
Awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, took many well-known portraits of
celebrities and artists, especially while working for Vanity Fair in the 1930s.
She also produced several books. Cunningham’s work continues to be exhibited
and collected around the world.
https://iphf.org/inductees/imogen-cunningham/
ELIOT PORTER
American photographer known for his richly colored
images of the natural world.
His interest in nature was fostered by his family from
a young age. After earning degrees in chemical engineering and medicine, he
spent a decade working as a scientist and teacher. The elegant black-and-white
landscapes he made at the time reflected the influence of photographers Alfred
Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Ansel Adams.
In the early 1940s, after having committed to pursue a
career in photography, he began the transition from traditional black and white
film to the new Kodachrome color film used by magazine photographers.
Although Porter often struggled against an opinion
that color photographs were not art, his exquisite prints earned him a
Guggenheim Fellowship and a show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He became known also for his fine art publications focusing on the preservation of natural
resources and published a number of critically acclaimed photography books.
https://www.artsy.net/artist/eliot-porter
March 2020
JOSEF KOUDELKA
Josef Koudelka, born in Moravia, part of the former Czechoslovakia, made his first photographs while a
student in the 1950s. He started his career as an
aeronautical engineer in 1961 and also began photographing Gypsies in
Czechoslovakia and theater in Prague. He turned full-time to photography in
1967. The following year, photographed the Soviet
invasion of Prague, publishing his photographs under the initials P. P. (Prague
Photographer) for fear of reprisal to him and his family. In 1969, he was
anonymously awarded the Overseas Press Club’s Robert Capa Gold Medal for those
photographs. Koudelka left Czechoslovakia for political
asylum in 1970 and shortly joined Magnum Photos. Koudelka has had more than a
dozen books of his work published, including Gypsies(1975), Exiles (1988), Invasion Prague 68 (2008), Chaos and
most recently, La Fabrique d’Exils (2017).
He won significant awards such as the Prix
Nadar (1978), a Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1989), a Grand Prix
Cartier-Bresson (1991), and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in
Photography (1992).
Exhibitions of his work have been held at
the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography, New York;
the Hayward Gallery, London; the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam; the
Institute of Chicago; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Palais de Tokyo,
Paris; and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
https://www.lensculture.com/jkoudelka
April 2020
RODNEY SMITH
For over 45 years, fine art and fashion photographer
Rodney Smith brought his unique vision to the world through his whimsical
imagery. Playful and surreal, his photographs graced the pages of TIME, The
Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, among others. Even after his
passing in 2016, his legacy carries on through the galleries and museums that
continue to display his work, as well as publications and new photographers
influenced by his style.
An appreciation for elegance and beauty came to Smith
early, as the son of Anne Klein president Stanford Smith. While studying at
Yale, he began taking classes with acclaimed photographer Walker Evans, soaking
in the lessons learned and transforming them into his own style. Merging what
he learned, four factors became the driving force behind his work—composition,
scale, proportion, and relation.
In an age when we’re are used to seeing photo
manipulation, it’s important to note that Smith’s compositions were created
in-camera. A faithful devotee of film photography, he never switched over to
digital technology, preferring to make magic on site rather than in
post-production.
For much of his career, Smith shot exclusively in
black and white, only switching to color in 2002. Still, all his imagery has a
classic, timeless feel, as though the characters are suspended in limbo. Even
when their backs are turned to the camera or faces are obscured, his skill as a
fine art photographer brings out unspoken emotions in the viewer. In his own
words, it was his “mission to find order out of chaos.”
https://www.thephotogallery.se/rodney-smith
May 2020
BILL BRAND
Bill Brandt was a famous German-born British
photographer and photojournalist. Best known for documenting British life in
the 20th century, he often focused on night scenes, family life, portraits of
artists, and the struggles of working-class people. One of his most celebrated
series depicts coal miners from northern Great Britain during the Depression. Though
he was born on May 2, 1904 in Hamburg, Germany, Brand later disowned his German
heritage and claimed that he was born in London.
He initially began studying photography and was later
introduced to Man Ray in Paris. His work from this time shows the influence of
André Kertész and Eugène Atget, as well as Man Ray and the Surrealists.During
the 1930s he published his important early monographs The English at Home
(1932) and A Night in London (1932) in addition to becoming a frequent
contributor to the illustrated press, specifically Picture Post, Lilliput,
Weekly Illustrated, and Verve. After the war, he adopted an Expressionist style
and often employed wide-angled lenses, transforming the body through the angle
and frame of the camera lens, especially in his Pespective of Nudes series.
Today, Brandt’s works are in the collections of the
Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate
Gallery in London, among others. He died on December 20, 1983 in London, United
Kingdom.
https://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artists/45-bill-brandt/overview/#/artworks/11108
June 2020
GARRY WINOGRAND
A legendary American photographer, regarded as highly influential for his street photographs documenting the social and cultural landscape of mid-century metropolitan United States. Shot almost exclusively in black and white, Winogrand's images provide a slice of 20th-century American culture, replete with all the nightlife, excitement, heartbreak, trauma, and banality that constitutes life. Born on January 14, 1928 in the Bronx, NY, he studied painting and photography at City College and Columbia University and graduated in 1948, embarking on a commercial and personal photographic career. He participated in the groundbreaking 1955 exhibition “The Family of Man” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and gained acclaim among his peers Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander. Winogrand's later life and work was marked with landmark acclaim and success, garnering an exceptional three Guggenheim Awards in 1964, 1969, and 1979, as well as a plethora of exhibitions that included a major retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in 1988. Winogrand died on March 19, 1984, having taken and developed some 20,000 rolls of film over the course of his life.
A legendary American photographer, regarded as highly influential for his street photographs documenting the social and cultural landscape of mid-century metropolitan United States. Shot almost exclusively in black and white, Winogrand's images provide a slice of 20th-century American culture, replete with all the nightlife, excitement, heartbreak, trauma, and banality that constitutes life. Born on January 14, 1928 in the Bronx, NY, he studied painting and photography at City College and Columbia University and graduated in 1948, embarking on a commercial and personal photographic career. He participated in the groundbreaking 1955 exhibition “The Family of Man” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and gained acclaim among his peers Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander. Winogrand's later life and work was marked with landmark acclaim and success, garnering an exceptional three Guggenheim Awards in 1964, 1969, and 1979, as well as a plethora of exhibitions that included a major retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in 1988. Winogrand died on March 19, 1984, having taken and developed some 20,000 rolls of film over the course of his life.