Photography-Now - International Fine Art Photography Index

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Artists / United States
View Portfolio Ansel Adams American, 1902 - 1984 Adams was born in the Western Addition of San Francisco, California to distinctly upper-class parents Charles and Olive Adams. He was an only child and was named after his uncle Ansel Easton. The Adams family came from New England, having migrated from the north of Ireland in the early 1700s but were not connected with the Presidential Adams family. His grandfather founded an...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio   Robert Adams American, born, 1937 Robert Adams (born May 8, 1937) is an American photographer who came to prominence as part of the photographic movement known as New Topographics. He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in photography in 1973 and 1980, and he received the MacArthur Foundation's MacArthur Fellowship in 1994. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York a...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Arbus, Diane American, 1923-1971 A pivotal figure in contemporary documentary photography, Diane Arbus produced a substantial body of work before her suicide in 1971. Her unrelentingly direct photographs of people who live on the edge of societal acceptance, as well as those photographs depicting supposedly "normal" people in a way that sharply outlines the cracks in their public masks, were contr...

Artists / France
View Portfolio Atget, Eugene French, 1857-1927 Jean Eugene Auguste Atget, among the first of photography's social documenters, has come to be regarded as one of the medium's major figures. His images of Paris are perhaps the most vivid record of a city ever made.  Atget was born in Libourne, near Bordeaux, France, and was raised by an uncle from an early age after the deaths of his parents. He became a cabin boy a...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Artists Website Richard Avedon American 1923 - 2004 Born in New York in 1923, Richard Avedon dropped out of high school and joined the Merchant Marine's photographic section. Upon his return in 1944, he found a job as a photographer in a department store. Within two years he had been "found" by an art director at HARPER'S BAZAAR and was producing work for them as well as VOGUE, LOOK, and a nu...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Lewis Baltz American, born 1945   Lewis Baltz (born 1945 in Newport Beach, California) is a visual artist, philosopher,[citation needed] and well known photographer who became an icon of the New Topographic movement of the late 1970s. Baltz graduated from San Francisco Art Institute in 1969 and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate School. He received several scholarships and awa...

Artists / Italy
  View Portfolio Gabriele Basilico Italian, born 1944 Gabriele Basilico is among the best known documentary photographers in Europe, cities and industrial landscapes are his fields of research. Originally an architect, he works as a photographer of architecture for publishing firms, industry, public and private institutions. In 1984 and 1985 he is commissioned by DATAR (the delegation for planning the country and helping reg...

Artists / Germany
  View Portfolio Bernd & Hilla Becher Bernd and Hilla Becher were a German photographer team and a married couple, best- known for their collection of industrial building images examining the similarities and differences in structure and appearance. Bernd (1931 – 2007) and Hilla (b. 1934) Becher first met at the Düsseldorf Academy. Both were studying painting at the time and in 1961, the two were married. Th...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio John Ernest Joseph Bellocq American, 1873-1949 John Ernest Joseph Bellocq was a professional photographer who worked in New Orleans during the early 20th century. Bellocq is remembered for his haunting photographs of the prostitutes of Storyville, New Orleans' legalized red light district. These have inspired novels, poems and films.  E. J. Bellocq was a commercial photographer of Frenc...

Artists / Germany
  View Portfolio   Karl Blossfeldt (1865 – 1932) was a German photographer, sculptor, teacher, and artist who worked in Berlin, Germany, at the turn of the century. He worked with a camera he designed himself. That camera allowed him to greatly magnify the objects he was capturing, to up to 30 times their actual size. He spent much of his time devoted to the study of nature. In his career of more than 30 years, he ph...

Artists / Mexico
View Portfolio Alvarez Bravo, Manuel Mexican, 1902-2002 Álvarez Bravo was born in Mexico City on February 4,1902. He came from a family of artists, and met several other prominent artists who encouraged his work when he was young, including Tina Modotti and Diego Rivera. His grandfather was a photographer and his father was a patron of photography, painting and literary composition. Manuel began studying painting and music...

Artists / France
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Henri Cartier-Bresson French 1908 - 2004 Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed. Born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, near Pari...

Artists / Canada
  View Portfolio David Burdeny Canadian, born 1968 Artists Website

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Books about Bill Burke Bill Burke Bill Burke, born 1943, studied at Rhode Island School of Design. His photographs are exhibited world-wide and are in the collections of the International Center of Photography, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Smithsonian Institution Washington, the Museum of Fine Art Boston, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. His work has received the Joh...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Callahan, Harry American, 1912-99 Born in Detroit, Callahan studied at Michigan State University before going to work for the Chrysler Motor Parts Corporation. In 1936, he married Eleanor Knapp, who later became the subject of some of his most important images. Callahan bought his first camera in 1938, and credits Ansel Adams' visit to the Detroit Photo Guild in 1941 as pivotal in his decision to become a photogr...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Linda Connor American, born 1944 Linda Connor has spent more than twenty-five years exploring and investigating exotic and spiritual places. A frequent visitor to India, Mexico, Thailand, Ireland, Peru, Nepal, Egypt, Hawaii and the American Southwest, Connor takes her 8 x 10" view camera on a pilgrimage into our history. What she reveals is a past filled with presence; a past which...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Cunningham, Imogen American, 1883-1976 Imogen Cunningham began photographing in 1901 after being inspired by the work of Gertrude Kaesebier. Born in Portland, Oregon, she graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a major in chemistry and went to work in the studio of Edward S. Curtis, where she learned the process of platinum printing. In 1909 she continued her education in photographic chemistry at...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Bruce Davidson (born September 5, 1933 in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American photographer. He has been a member of Magnum since 1958. His photographs, notably those taken in Harlem, have been widely exhibited and published in a number of books. Biography Youth Bruce Davidson was born in Oak Park to a single mother who worked in a factory to support her two sons. His mother raised her children to be autonom...

Artists / Great Britain
  View Portfolio Artist's Website John Davies British, born 1945 "John Davies is one of today's most outstanding British photographers, he became famous through his research on the English industrial landscape, observed in vast and detailed views... John Davies's work belongs to the world of contemporary documentary photography. Faithful to a refined, pure black and white, taken on as the absolute rul...

Artists / Belgium
View Portfolio Artists Website Carl de Keyzer Belgian, born 1958 One of a generation of reporters to have emerged in the late 1980s, Carl de Keyzer likes to tackle large-scale projects and general themes. He often starts from the premise that disaster has already struck and that everywhere infrastructures are on the verge of collapse in overpopulated communities. De Keyzer started his career as a freelance photographer in ...

Artists / Netherlands
  View Portfolio Rineke Dijkstra Dutch, born 1959 Rineke Dijkstra documents people in transitional moments: mothers shortly after giving birth, young people entering the military, matadors still bloody from a bullfight, young club kids just off the dance floor, and preadolescent bathers on various beaches in the United States and Eastern Europe. Formally, her images resemble classical portraiture with their frontally posed figur...

Artists / France
  View Portfolio   Robert Doisneau (April 14, 1912 - April 1, 1994) was a French photographer noted for his frank and often humorous depictions of Parisian street life. Among his most recognizable work is Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville), a photo of a couple kissing in the busy streets of Paris. Who the couple were was a mystery until in 1993 Denise and Jean-Louis Lave...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio William Egglestone American born 1939 William Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Sumner, Mississippi. His father was an engineer who had failed as a cotton farmer, and his mother was the daughter of a prominent local judge. As a boy, Eggleston was introverted; he enjoyed playing the piano, drawing, and working with electronics. From an early age, he was also drawn to visual media, and repor...

Artists / Denmark
  View Portfolio   Artists Website Joakim Eskildsen Danish, born 1972 Joakim Eskildsen was born in Copenhagen in 1971 where he trained with the Royal Court photographer Rigmor Mydtskov. In 1994, he moved to Finland to learn the craft of photographic book making with Pentti Sammallahti at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, graduating with an MA degree in photography in 1998. ...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Evans, Walker American, 1903 - 1975 Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, Walker Evans was part of a well-to-do family. He graduated from Phillips Academy, in Andover, Mass. He studied literature for a year at Williams College before dropping out. After spending a year in Paris, he returned to the United States to join the edgy literary and art crowd in New York City. John Cheever, Hart Crane, and Lincoln Kirstein were among...

Artists / China
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Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Larry Fink American, born 1941 "Larry Fink's photographs are like the stage in a darkened theater. His hand-held flash splendidly illuminates the details of the drama before us and reveals the nuance of the personal moment," wrote Susan Kismaric, associate curator, Museum of Modern Art. A practitioner of the "snapshot aesthetic", Larry Fink is catalogued with the esteemed ranks of Rober...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Lee Friedlander American,born 1934 Friedlander studied photography at the Art Center College of Design located in Pasadena, California. In 1956, he moved to New York City where he photographed jazz musicians for record covers. His early work was influenced by Eugène Atget, Robert Frank, and Walker Evans. In 1960, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded Friedlander a grant to focus on hi...

Artists / Switzerland
View Portfolio Artist's Website Peter Gasser Swiss, born 1947  To the acknowledged Swiss masters of Photography of the last forty years - Hans Finsler, Gotthard Schuh, Werner Bischof, Paul Senn, Jakob Tuggener, Robert Frank and others - we may add an other name: Peter Gasser. A love for Swiss precision work is Gasser`s bond with his famous country-men. His predilection for landscape photography made him tur...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Frank Gohlke is a leading figure in American landscape photography. He has been awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Known for his large format landscape photographs, Gohlke's work has been shown at museums all over the world and included in collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, the George Eastman House International Mu...

Artists / South Africa
  View Portfolio Artist's Website David Goldblatt (born November 29, 1930) is a South African photographer who was born in Randfontein, Gauteng Province. Goldblatt began photographing in 1948 and has documented developments in South Africa through the period of Apartheid to the present. He has numerous publications to his name and is held in high esteem, both locally and internationally. His book, South Africa: The Stru...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Emmet Gowin American, born 1941 He grew up in southern Virginia. He began photographing in 1961, at the Richmond Professional Institute, and went on to graduate study at the Rhode Island School of Design. His prints have been exhibited widely and are in the collections of museums and galleries throughout the United States. Gowin lives with his wife, Edith, and their sons, Isaac and Elijah, in a small Pennsylvani...

Artists / Canada
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Jill Greenberg Canadian, born 1967 Greenberg was born in Montreal, Canada, and grew up in a suburb of Detroit. She graduated in 1989 from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Photography and moved to New York City to pursue a career in photography. Greenberg moved to Los Angeles in 2001 where she met her husband Robert. Greenberg has done commercial work f...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Lewis Hine Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940), was an American photographer. For Hine, the camera was both a research tool and an instrument of social reform. Although Lewis Hine was neither the first-nor certainly the last-photographer to employ his camera in the cause of social reform, the quality of his best work has rarely been equaled. Even more importantly, H...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website   Rolfe Horn studied landscape photography with Mark Citret, an associate of Ansel Adams, prior to entering Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, California in 1993. Whilst a student at Brooks Institute, he studied with Nick Dekker, who introduced him to alternative processes and pushed him to create powerful images. He received multiple awards for his black and white ...

Artists / South Africa
  View Portfolio Pieter Hugo South African Gallery Representation 2008 Portraits, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool Nollywood, Warren Siebrits, Johannesburg 2007 The Hyena and Other Men, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York Messina/Musina, Extraspazio, Rome Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2007 touring exhibition Looking Aside, Stephen Cohen Gallery, L...

Artists / Japan
  View Portfolio   Yo Imae Yo Imae about Yo Imae: "I was born in 1980 in a city called Yokohama in Japan. I had my formal education in photography at the International Center of Photography in New York after attending a university in Japan." About the portraits recently presented on the F Blog: "For the series of portraits which I have sent to you, I photographed those people on the stree...

Artists / China
  View Portfolio Artits's Website   Chen Jiagang 1963           Born 1980           Student of the Architectural Department of Chingqing Jianzhu University               PROFFESIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS 1984-1992   Worked in China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute...

Artists / Canada
  View Portfolio Karsh, Yousuf Canadian, 1908-2002  Yousuf Karsh came to international prominence with a 1941 Life cover: the famous "English bulldog," portrait of Winston Churchill. Karsh has photographed many thousands of subjects in the last 50 years, principally portraits of distinguished men and women in every field of endeavor: statesmanship, the arts, and the sciences. Karsh prefers to take his portraits in the su...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Kertész, André American, 1894-1985 André Kertész is recognized as one of the world's leading photographers. During a career spanning more than 70 years, he created images of ordinary life, in a style without pretension, using small-format cameras almost exclusively. As his instinctive formal sense became more assured, he retained the vital curiosity which first prompted him at age 18,...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio More on Mark Klett  Mark Klett was born in 1952 and holds a BS in geology from St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York (1974), and an MFA in photography from the State University of New York at Buffalo, Program at the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York (1977). His documentary photographs reveal the diversity of the land of the Southwestern United States. His work has been shown in one...

Artists / Switzerland
  View Portfolio Artists Website Ferit Kuyas Swiss, born 1955 Ferit Kuyas was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He studied architecture and law in Zurich, Switzerland and graduated 1982 in jurisprudence from the University of Zurich. Since then he became a self-taught photographer. He lives and works near Zurich, Switzerland. Working mainly on personal projects, he published his first book Industrial Interiors in t...

Artists / France
  View Portfolio Jacques Henri Lartigue Jacques Lartigue was born in Courbevoie, France on June 13, 1894. He took his first photographs at the age of six, using his father’s camera, and started keeping what would become a lifelong diary. In 1904 he began making photographs and drawings of family games and childhood experiences, also capturing the beginnings of aviation and cars and the smart women o...

Artists / Germany
  View Portfolio   Jürgen Lechner Website: www.juergenlechner.de Email: jl@juergenlechner.de Jürgen Lechner Born 1962 in Nürnberg, Germany A'Levels in 1985 Apprenticeship for Photography and Photographic Lab Assistant. Since 1989 freelance photographer. Member of AWI for over 15 years. Awards Trierenberger Supercircuit 2006: Goldmedal - Special Theme “Panorama” Trierenberger Supercircuit 2007: ...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website   Jongchul was born and raised in South Korea. His name, which means 'religion and philosophy', has been an appropriate predictor of his interests: He studied Buddhism and Sculpture in Dongguk University (2005) and Photography at the New England School of Photography (2007). Through his work, Jongchul explores the interplay between self and surrounding. He currently lives i...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website David Levinthal American, born 1949 Photographer David Levinthal has long fixated on toys as signifiers of cultural myths, employing toy soldiers, cowboys and Indians to deconstruct historic icons through the prism of 1950s boyhood. In recent years, Levinthal has moved from boy's playthings to those of men, in the form of adult-oriented female figurines built from model kits. Though su...

Artists / Germany
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Loretta Lux german, born 1969 Loretta Lux was born in Dresden, East Germany and is a German fine art photographer known for her surreal portraits of young children. She currently lives and works in Monaco. Lux graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Munich in the 1990s, and debuted at the Yossi Milo gallery, New York in 2004. The show put both Yossi Milo and Lorett...

Artists / China
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Ma Liang/ Maleonn China 1972 Born in Shanghai 1984-1995 Shanghai Huashan Art School Attached High School of Fine Art College of Shanghai University Graduated from Fine Art College of Shanghai University, Major in Graphic Design 1995-2003 Engaged in commercial film as Art director and Director 2004- Engaged in independent Creation of Art Lives and works in Shanghai, Chi...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Arists Website Mapplethorpe, Robert American, 1946-1989 At first Robert Mapplethorpe wanted to become a musician, but he eventually decided to study painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. In 1968 he met the singer Patti Smith with whom he moved to the now legendary Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan in 1970. Under the influence of his friend John McEndry, curator for printed art and photography at the Metropol...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Brian McKee American, born 1977 Born 1977 in Kansas City, Missouri, attended the Interlochen Arts Academy and Bard College studying photography with Stephen Shore, Larry Fink and Barbara Ess. Worked as assistant and studio manger to Lynn Davis 1996-2001. Currently lives and works in New York City.

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