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 / Canada
  View Portfolio   Benoit Aquin - Winner Prix Pictet 2008 Artist statement One of the greatest environmental disasters of our time: The Chinese 'Dust Bowl' is probably the largest conversion of productive land into sand anywhere in the world. Deserts cover 18% of China today. Of those, 78% are natural, while 22% were created by humans. With unsustainable practices, to date, Chinese farmers and herders have transf...

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 / Ukraine
  View Portfolio   Arthur Bondar Kiev, Ukraine. I was born in Krivoy Rog in Ukraine, 1983. I've studed in my own town and then in 2000 I entered at the National Lingustic University and moved to Kiev. In this university I've studied during 2000-2004. After I've got my bachelor degree in English phylology I left the university and began my own way. I have worked almost at twenty jobs before I found myself in photography. Fr...

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 / France
  View Portfolio   Vincent Brien Born :  May 26, 1964 in France email : vincentbrien@yahoo.fr Professional Experience I am a self-educated photographer and began my career in Rouen printing black and white photos, ( 1989 - 1992) before working as a stage assistant in fashion and publicity in Paris (1994 -1995).  I then worked for five years as an assistant photographer in  corporate communication (1995 &nda...

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 / Canada
View Portfolio Edward Burtynsky Canadian, born 1955 Burtynsky is one of the best Color Photographers today. Born in 1955 in St. Catharines, Ontario, he studied at the Ryerson Polytechnic University, where he obtained a B.A. in photographic arts, and at the Niagara College, where he obtained a diploma in graphic arts. His work appears in a number of museums, corporate collections, and books. Burtynsky's most famous...

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 / Canada
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Michel Chaccour Canadian, Syrian, born 1985. Michel Chaccour was born in Damascus, Syria in 1985. After living most of his life in Syria he moved to Montreal in 2003, where he currently resides, to complete a degree in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at Mcgill University. He completed his academic path after graduating in Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Finance ...

Artists / South Africa
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Gordon Clark (born January, 1955) is a South African photographer who was born in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province. Lives and works in Cape Town. Assistant to Photographer Johan Vessels 1976-1979. Studied film making in L.A 1980-1984.   Gordon Clark lives and works in Cape Town South Africa after living in Los Angeles for 24 years.   A celebrated photographer and commercial director,...

Artists / Switzerland
  View Portfolio Artist's Website “It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.”   (use quotation marks) Statement: I try to see only that which is before my eyes. Read also “Late beginner” at  www.trafford.com for more.  

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 / Jordan
  View Portfolio   Tariq Dajani (Jordanian-Palestinain/British photographer-artist, b.1965 England) Tariq Dajani spent his early years mov­ing between the Mid­dle East and Europe, gain­ing an under­stand­ing and an appre­ci­a­tion of dif­fer­ent cul­tures and tra­di­tions. He grew up with a strong inter­est in the arts which sub­se­quently led to a career in pho­tog...

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 / France
  View Portfolio   This is also a sample of our new portfolio we provide to photographers who want to present their work on Photography-now.net     Cédric Delsaux | France Born 1974 in Paris. Cédric Delsaux lives and works in Paris, France. After studying cinematography and journalism, he worked as a bookseller and in advertising. He has devoted himself to photography full-time since 2003. He received the K...

Artists / Italy
  View Portfolio Artist's Website ORIGINALLY A GRAPHIC DESIGNER I WORKED FOR MANY YEARS IN LONDON  AS ART EDITOR FOR THE TATLER, WOMAN’S MIRROR AND LONDON LIFE. I THEN SPENT OVER 15 YEARS AS CREATIVE DIRECTOR FOR McCANN-ERICKSON AND OGILVY & MATHER IN ITALY, MALAYSIA, SPAIN AND PORTUGAL BEFORE TURNING TO DIRECTING TELEVISION COMMERCIALS THROUGHOUT EUROPE. I WAS A FOUNDING PARTN...

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 / Denmark
  View Portfolio Born and raised in Denmark, I grew up surrounded by water. The ocean, lakes and rivers were everywhere I looked. My senses were filled with the smell, sound and the visual impression of water. Water to me represents life and the equanimity and power of nature. Water is where I came from. My fascination with water is never ending. I can sit on the shoreline for hours without taking a single photograph and just take in the...

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 Artist's Website   Artist Statement     My old friend, Garry Winogrand used to say, “I photograph to see what something will look like photographed”.  So do I.  I’m fascinated by that dynamic.  But I also put a lot of emphasis on what I photograph.  Over the years I have been drawn to all manner of subjects:  Indians, cowboys, boxers, rodeos, lucha libre (M...

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 / Poland
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Bio & Statement: Born in Luxembourg, I grew up in a small village. At the age of 21 I left Luxembourg and headed for Great Britain. After completing my BA in photography I moved to London. After 6 years in London working as photographer and artist I now live in Krakow, Poland. Since starting with photography, the way I see my surroundings has changed dramatically. I`ve re-discovered the remarkab...

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 / Great Britain
  View Portfolio Julia Fullerton-Batten Born in Germany, Julia’s childhood also included a 7-year stay in the United States before she moved to England in 1986. Julia has also travelled extensively throughout the world both on holiday and on business assignments. Trips meant spending several weeks at a time in countries such as China, India, Vietnam, Chile, Australia, New Zealand. These visits provided her with plenty of picture mate...

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 / Canada
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Artist’s Statement I suppose every creative process should probably begin with some kind of overflowing feeling that longs to be able to transmit what it is one sees and cares about, into some sort of permanent form.  For me, that transmitter has been my camera, and the final form a fine art digital print.  I would love to be able to learn some of the old m...

Artists / New Zealand
  View Portfolio Artist's Website   Michael Hall New Zealand, born 1962. Michael was raised in the Far North of New Zealand. During 1988-1989 he studied at Wellington Polytechnic. Much of what Hall focuses his lens and attention on is the altered landscape. His Climate Change work is a good example of this. A blighted moonscape stretching as far as the eye can see. Stunted trees. blackene...

Artists / Great Britain
  View Portfolio   Simon Head - English, born in Winchester, 1951. He lives with his family in London, U.K. I agree with Nicolas Bourriaud when he states that ‘The artist works like a social worker and their art documents this work. Some artistic activities really develop according to the scenario, in other words the work of art itself cannot go beyond being a moment anymore, it takes part in the artistic activity, it is not t...

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