• Richard Avedon

    Richard Avedon Biography

    Richard Avedon was an iconic American photographer whose work significantly influenced the realms of fashion, portraiture, and fine art photography. Born in New York City in 1923, his interest in photography began at an early age when he joined the Young Men’s Hebrew Association camera club when he was twelve years old.

     

    In 1942 Avedon joined the armed forces during World War II. It was there he served as Photographer’s Mate Second Class in the U.S. Merchant Marine. His time there played a crucial role in shaping his early photography career. Avedon mentions, “My job was...

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  • Cooper & Gorfer

    Cooper & Gorfer Biography

    Sarah Cooper (b.1974, US) and Nina Gorfer (b.1979, Austria) have been collaborating since 2006 and work in Sweden. Their work centers around themes of illusion, memory, and dislocation, illustrating the malleability of identity through layered pictorial collages of the female experience. Their work at times can mirror 18th and 19th century paintings, with images of distinct reference to history, myths, and cultural heritage. Cooper & Gorfer’s work range from physically layered collages with painted and embroidered materials, to photographs of disassembled images with different states of ephemeral montage. They reimagine the tradition of portraiture by visually...

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  • Roy DeCarava

    Roy DeCarva Biography Roy DeCarava was an African American artist known for his photographs portraying Black American life on the streets of cities like New York and Washington, DC. His images illustrate the everyday intimacy between people, places and objects. He is most well-known for his photographs of famous jazz musicians but in addition to those he captured the interactions between ordinary people as well as the mysteriousness and strangeness of city life. Over a career that spanned nearly six decades, DeCarava came to be known as a founder in the field of black-and-white photography, advocating for an approach to... View artist page

  • Saïdou Dicko

    Saïdou Dicko Biography Saïdou Dicko was born in Burkina Faso in 1979. He lives and works in Paris, France. Saïdou is a self-taught visual artist (photographer, videographer, installer and painter). At the age of five, Dicko, a Fulani Shepherd, learned to draw by collecting shadows of his sheep on the Sahel soils. Naturally, the shadow is present in all of his work. In 2005, he began to experiment with photography. Six months after his photographic debut, he presented his first exhibition in the 2006 Dakar Biennial Off, where he won a prize, the first in a long series. Through painting,... View artist page

  • Nan Goldin

    Nan Goldin Biography As a teenager in Boston, Massachusetts, photographer Nan Goldin gained notoriety for her intimate portraits of close friends in the city’s gay and transsexual communities. These friends, often drag queens and other members of marginalized society, became the subjects of her most well-known project, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. Later, in New York City and throughout travels in Europe and Asia, her work would continue to champion and celebrate members of these alternative subcultures through storytelling in intimate and autobiographical ways. Born in 1953, Goldin grew up in the suburbs of Boston. In the late 60’s, jarred... View artist page

  • Gail Albert Halaban

    Gail Albert Halaban Biography

    Gail Albert Halaban is a distinguished photographer renowned for her captivating and intimate visual narratives that explore the complexities of human relationships and urban life. Throughout her illustrious career, Gail Albert Halaban has exhibited a keen eye for capturing the essence of her subjects, transcending the ordinary to reveal the extraordinary moments that define our shared human experience. With a career spanning several decades, Gail Albert Halaban has garnered widespread acclaim for her ability to create images that reveal the ever-thinning barrier between the private and public sphere in modern cities, exposing the paradox of neighborly...

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  • Angela West

    Angela West Biography Angela West (b. 1971) captures the delicate interplay between time, memory, and place in her evocative body of work. With a 25-year history at Jackson Fine Art, where she has been featured in six solo and six group exhibitions, Angela West is celebrated for her ability to navigate the intimate and communal aspects of life in the South. Her recent work merges photography and painting, reflecting a personal exploration of domesticity and its historical impact on women’s artistic expression. In each project, Angela West ’s attention to life, landscape, and the passage of time conveys affection and... View artist page