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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...

Artist Matthew Brandt was born in California and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union in New York and his MFA from UCLA.

Matthew Brandt's photography conflates subject and material, incorporating physical elements from the sources he’s depicting to create unique compositions that are technically inventive and conceptually sly. For Lakes and Reservoirs, his landscapes were bathed in the water of their subjects; 2014’s Dust featured reproductions of historical photographs of demolished structures, rendered in pigments borne of debris collected from those buildings’ contemporary sites. For 1864, his...

Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, William Christenberry (1936 – 2016) grew up in a south where old road signs, deteriorating buildings, and dirt roads shaped his childhood memories. Working in a wide variety of media — including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, and assemblage — William Christenberry is known for his artistic exploration of the psychology of place, in particular the Black Belt region of west-central Alabama. Originally focused on painting, William Christenberry moved to New York City in 1961 and there met Walker Evans, whose celebrated FSA photographs of the Depression-era South, many taken in Christenberry’s Hale County, were...

Josef Hoflehner (1955-present) is an Austrian photographer whose work often focuses on the solitude and beauty of nature. Regularly featuring stunning—and sometimes haunting—landscapes with the occasional glimpse of encroaching humanity, Josef Hoflehner’s photos provides the viewer with an introspective and refreshing way of seeing the natural world. Much of his work focuses on solitary landscapes, and he has traveled to some of the most remote corners of the world to places like Antarctica, Vietnam, China, Japan, Yemen and Iceland in order to take photos. “I like empty spaces,” he said. “I like to mix up or change...

Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) was in Weissenfels-an-der-Salle, Germany. Originally channeling inspiration for shooting fashion from Baron George Hoyningen-Huene, Horst P. Horst eventually developed his own style, particularly manipulating light to highlight subjects’ features. By 1931, Horst P. Horst was shooting regularly for French Vogue, as fostered through a friendship with Hoyningen-Huene. Eight years later he made one of his most famous works, Mainbocher Corset, which featured a woman’s back strapped into a corset and published in Vogue. Horst P. Horst primarily worked in the studio, sometimes taking days to strike the right balance of light and...

British photographer Michael Kenna (1953-present) is best known for his black-and-white landscape photography in which he often utilizes drawn-out exposure times, some up to 10 hours in length. Most of Michael Kenna’s photography is taken at dawn or at night, and he has commented that 'you can't always see what's otherwise noticeable during the day … with long exposures you can photograph what the human eye is incapable of seeing.' He cites fellow British photographer Bill Brandt as a primary influence; in fact, after Brandt died in 1983, Michael Kenna paid tribute by visiting and photographing a...

Born in New York City a year before the Depression started, French photographer and filmmaker William Klein’s (1928 - present) first forays into art were through painting. Although he eventually switched gears towards the camera, he never formally studied photography, which explains his abstract approach. William Klein won his first camera during a poker game in 1946 while part of the U.S. Army stationed in Germany. He worked a brief stint as assistant to French painter and sculptor Fernand Léger’s in Paris in 1948. William Klein’s photography in fashion has appeared in magazines, books and documentary and...

Pioneer American photographer, O. Winston Link, is a commercial photographer best known for his images of steam locomotives. Unlike the street photography of Link’s time which was dependent on the natural light available, Link used a shooting method that was truly unique. His technique employed elaborate staging and synchronized flashes on a large scale. He developed new forms of lighting equipment, rigging 43 flash bulbs to strike simultaneously in his effort to capture the locomotives in action at night. In addition, Link used a large-format camera as opposed to the popular 35mm.

Link was born in...

Sally Mann is an American photographer renowned for her evocative and often controversial work exploring themes of family, identity, and the American South. Her career spans several decades, and Sally Mann has consistently pushed the boundaries of conventional photography, capturing the complexities of human relationships and the landscape. Her distinctive style blends elements of documentary photography with an artistic and poetic sensibility, making her a prominent figure in contemporary photography.

Sally Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia, on May 1, 1951. She developed an early interest in photography and pursued her education at Hollins University, where...

Steve Schapiro was an American photojournalist who documented six decades of American culture, from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy to Andy Warhol’s Factory and the filming of The Godfather trilogy. He published a dozen books of his photographs, exhibited his work in shows from Los Angeles to Moscow, and is represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, among others. His photographs have appeared in museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide. The High Museum of Art’s...

Mark Steinmetz (b. 1961) is an Athens, Georgia-based photographer whose work captures black-and-white images of Southern Americana as seen in urban, rural and suburban landscapes. “I like to stress the poetry and ambiance of a place, while still trying to be truthful,” he has remarked, and his candid shots of everyday life reflect this statement. Examples of this sentiment are strikingly portrayed in Steinmetz's new photo series Terminus, showing the everyday moments of people passing through airports. “At the airport, people from all over the world and from all walks of life can be found in the...

Photographer Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944. He moved to London after high school, where he studied Photography at the London College of Printing.

In the early Sixties, Massimo Vitali started working as a photojournalist, collaborating with many magazines and agencies in Italy and in Europe. It was during this time that he met Simon Guttmann, the founder of the agency Report, who was to become fundamental in Massimo’s growth as a “Concerned Photographer”.

At the beginning of the Eighties a growing mistrust in the belief that photography had an absolute capacity to...

Christian Walker (American, b. 1953 Springfield, MA – d. 2003 Seattle, WA) was a groundbreaking Black gay photographer active in Boston and Atlanta from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. His photographs, critical writings, and curatorial projects are vital contributions to the histories of art and photography of the 20th century. In 1974, Walker moved to Boston where he spent the next ten years residing primarily in the South End. After graduating from the School of Fine Arts, Boston, MA in 1983, he participated in several Boston-area solo and group exhibitions and wrote art criticism for gay publications...