PROFILE Being a photographer for 25 years, I’ve lived through all the evolution of technology, the crucial passage from film to digital photography, keeping up with it, experimenting and testing. During all these years, I’ve always tried to avoid any compromise in terms of quality, spending a long time in searching new perspectives, new points […]
Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States. Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in 1874. After his father died in an accident, […]
The American artist Paul Strand had a long and productive career with the camera. His pictorialist studies of the 1910s, followed by the coolly seductive machine photographs of the 1920s, like the contemporary work of Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped define the canon of early American modernism and set its premium on the […]
Creator unconventional a postmodern dream world, Jean-François Rauzier wonders through his Hyperphotos to become the heritage. With its fanciful worlds, it offers a reflection on our perception of the world and the major fundamental themes of our society: culture, science, progress, oppression, ecology, utopia, freedom, salvation … Known for his imaginary and its many cultural […]
Andrew Eccles was born in England, grew up in Toronto, moved to Hawaii, went to high school in Vancouver, and spent time in Texas all before settling in New York City in 1983. It was there that he decided to pursue photography seriously. Within 3 months Andrew landed an apprenticeship with Annie Leibovitz lasting three […]
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1864, and schooled as an engineer in Germany, Alfred Stieglitz returned to New York in 1890 determined to prove that photography was a medium as capable of artistic expression as painting or sculpture. As the editor of Camera Notes, the journal of the Camera Club of New York—an association […]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael Kenna (born 1953) is an English photographer best known for his black & white landscapes. Kenna attended Upholland College in Lancashire, the Banbury School of Art in Oxfordshire, and theLondon College of Printing. In the 1980s, Kenna moved to San Francisco and worked as Ruth Bernhard’s printer.[1] Kenna’s […]
American photographer André Kertész is one of the most original photographers of the 20th century, often creating unexpected compositions from everyday subjects. Born in Budapest in 1894, he made his first photographs in 1912. In 1925 he moved to Paris where he established himself as an artist-photographer and his signature style evolved. In 1936, at […]