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Ansel Adams Biography Known for capturing essential landscapes along the American west, Ansel Adams established himself as one of the most influential and prolific 20th century photographers. Distinct from his contemporaries, Adams was not preoccupied with capturing shots that perfectly emulate reality; instead, he harnessed his knowledge of photographic theory and employed techniques that highlight the intricate and effervescent character of some of Earth’s greatest sites. His work evokes the same heightened sense of serenity that one feels when experiencing an element of nature for the first time.

Adams was born in San Francisco in 1902. Faced with dyslexia... View artist page

Diane Arbus Biography American photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971) did the work of subverting both social and artistic mores through her black-and-white portraits of vulnerable individuals in intensly personal moments. She frequently wandered around New York City with her camera, capturing groups and individuals who have historically occupied a space stigmatized by normative social structures. Her work exhibits a diverse range of marginalized identities, including subjects with mental illness, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and subjects embodying the essence of the middle class.

Born into a wealthy New York family in 1923, Arbus began engaging with art from a young... View artist page

Tina Barney Biography Tina Barney is an American photographer born in New York city in 1945 and is a member of the Lehman family. She is widely acclaimed for her large-scale portraits of her upper-middle-class family and friends. Today, Barney lives and works in both Westerly, Rhode Island and New York.

Barney began her artistic formation as a student at the Sun Valley Center for Arts and Humanities located in Ketchum, Idaho, where she studied between 1976 and 1979. During this time, Barney began experimenting with color and large-format photography. After returning to New York, Barney set her attention... View artist page

Julie Blackmon Biography Contemporary American photographer Julie Blackmon draws inspiration from the raucous tavern scenes of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painters, creating photographs based around the people and places in her small community.

Julie Blackmon has compared her surroundings to a giant Hollywood prop closet, where a Starbucks employee out on a smoke break may appear in her next photograph, or the beauty shop she passes every day becomes the setting for a new piece. “It’s a fun perspective to have … to see the world around you as a potential story or idea. It changes how you see... View artist page

Matthew Brandt Biography

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...

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Sheila Pree Bright Biography Sheila Pree Bright is a renowned international photographic artist and the mind behind the celebrated book #1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests. Bright's expansive artworks weave deep insights into contemporary culture. Her iconic series include Plastic Bodies, Suburbia, #1960Now, Invisible Empire,Young Americans, and an evocative portrayal of the 90s Hip Hop scene. Her incredible artistry finds a spot in the compilation and exhibit Posing Beauty in African American Culture. The 2014 documentary Through the Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People and the 2016 film Election Day:...View artist page

Harry Callahan Biography Harry Callahan was born in Detroit, Michigan, on October 22, 1912. Upon graduating from the public schools of the Royal Oak suburbs, Callahan would attend Michigan State College for three semesters to study engineering. In 1933, Callahan would leave school and start working for Chrysler Parts Corporation as a shipping clerk. This same year, Callahan would meet his wife, Eleanor Knapp, who eventually served as a primary subject in many of his works throughout his photography career.

Though Callahan never formally studied photography in the classroom, he found great interest in it as a hobby at... View artist page

Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was a pioneering French photographer renowned for his contributions to street photography and photojournalism. Born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, France, Cartier-Bresson initially pursued painting, studying under André Lhote and embracing Surrealism. However, his fascination with photography soon took precedence, leading to a career that redefined the medium. One of Henri Cartier-Bresson ’s most iconic images, Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare (1932), captures a man mid-air over a puddle, perfectly epitomizing his concept of the 'decisive moment.' This photograph showcases his spontaneous and intuitive style, embodying the essence of capturing a fleeting instance that reveals a deeper truth. The... View artist page

William Christenberry

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...

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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

William Eggleston Biography William Eggleston (American, b.1939) is a photographer who played a pivotal role in elevating color photography to a revered art form suitable for gallery display. Known for his democratic approach to photography, William Eggleston captures the beauty in everyday scenes and objects that often go unnoticed, such as storefronts, cars, and buildings. His work monumentalizes these subjects, imbuing them with a significance that challenges traditional notions of artistry.

Born and raised in the South, William Eggleston grew up in a creative environment as the son of an engineer and a local judge. His early years... View artist page

Alfred Eisenstaedt Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German-born American photographer whose photography and photojournalistic skills made him an international household name. He was born in 1898 to a Jewish family. Born in West Prussia, the family moved to Berlin in 1906. Eisenstaedt developed a passion for photography from an early age. As an 11-year-old, he took photos using an Eastman Kodak Folding Camera. However, his career as a photographer took a massive boost after he started freelance photography at Pacific and Atlantic Photo's in Berlin.

Over the years, Alfred amassed a lot of experience as a photographer. He quickly rose... View artist page

Walker Evans Biography Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1903, photographer Walker Evans took up photography in 1928.

Walker Evans is best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of the Interior documenting the effects of The Great Depression. His focus was the government-run resettlement community that housed unemployed West Virginia coal miners.

Much of Walker Evans' change to photography from the FSA period in 1935-36 uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera. His goal was to show Americans how the government was helping fix the myriad of problems associated with poverty during The... View artist page

Andreas Feininger Biography Working under the modus operandi, 'What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it,” Andreas Feininger was a pioneer both visually and technically. Although his body of work covered a wide range of subject matter, Feininger is perhaps most well known for his black and white architectural photographs as well as his assignments for LIFE Magazine. His experimentation with developing his own camera systems and lenses allowed him to create distortion-free images of architecture and landscapes in a groundbreaking way. This is perhaps best remembered in his LIFE Magazine photo “Route 66,... View artist page

Lee Friedlander Lee Friedlander, an influential American photographer, is known for his innovative scenes of city streets which often feature candid portraits of people, signs, and reflections of himself in storefront windows. Friedlander has the ability to organize an endless amount of visual information in dynamic compositions and makes humorous and poignant images among the chaos of city life. Friedlander’s street photography captures the abrupt overlaps of light and content in urban landscapes.

Born in 1934 in Aberdeen, Washington, Lee Friedlander began photographing when he was only fourteen years old. He studied photography at the Art Center School in... View artist page

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

William Gottlieb Biography William 'Bill' Gottlieb, an American photographer renowned for documenting the 'Golden Age' of American jazz in the 1930s and 40s, captured intimate and iconic portraits of jazz legends such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Charlie Parker. Gottlieb, self-taught in photography, saw his career blossom from a passion for jazz journalism, initially writing a weekly column for The Washington Post which led William Gottlieb to photograph his own subjects. His photographs are celebrated for their storytelling quality and ability to convey the essence of jazz culture through black and white imagery. Born in Brooklyn, NY,... View artist page

Josef Hoflehner Biography

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...

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Horst P. Horst Biography

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...

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George Hoyningen-Hune Biography George Hoyningen-Huene (1900–1968) is acknowledged as an iconic pioneer in the genre of fashion photography. Born in Satin Petersburg, Russia, his father was a Baltic nobleman and his mother the daughter of an Americn diplomat. During the Russian Revolution, the family fled to London and later relocated to Paris. Huene’s unique, innovative and artistic vision made him a leader in fashion photography. He was one of the first to capture the style of the haute couture fashion houses of Paris, including Chanel, Balenciaga and the jeweler Cartier. His keen eye for elegance, sophistication, and the ease with... View artist page

Michael Kenna Biography

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...

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André Kertész Biography André Kertész (1894 – 1985) is considered one of the seminal figures of 20th century photography. He is regarded as one of the fathers of photojournalism and street photography but is also known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic compositions using unorthodox camera angles, distortions, and style. By combining a seemingly artless spontaneity with a sophisticated understanding of composition, André Kertész developed and fostered a unique and intimate style of image making. Born Kertész Andor in Budapest, he received his first camera in 1912. At the early age of 18, he began experimenting with the medium by... View artist page

William Klein Biography

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...

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Jacques-Henri Lartigue Biography Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) was born in Courbevoie, France, but he grew up in Paris. His father, a businessman and passionate amateur photographer, gave him his first camera at the age of seven. He was very quickly attracted by movement and, after mastering the technique, took his first ‘snapshots’ of tennis, swimming, bobsledding, and other games.

From that point forward, Lartigue constantly took photos as a passion in his childhood, from automobile excursions and family holidays to crazy inventions by his older brother, Maurice. Born into wealth, the two brothers were fascinated by cars, aviation, and sports... View artist page

O. Winston Link Biography

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...

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Danny Lyon Biography Danny Lyon is a self-made American filmmaker and photographer. He's also known for his writing skills, which he uses to compliment his images. Danny received a BA in history from the University of Chicago in 1963. He also published his first photographs for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, where he served as a staff photographer in the same year. His photos were featured in The Movement , a documentary book about the Southern Civil Rights Movement.

Later, Lyon moved on to writing books. His first publication was The Bikeriders (1967), which is a study of outlaw... View artist page

Sally Mann Biography

Born in Lexington, Virginia, Sally Mann began to study photography in the late 1960s, attending the Ansel Adams Gallery’s Yosemite Workshops in Yosemite National Park, California, and the Putney School and Bennington College, both in Vermont. She received a BA from Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia, in 1974 and an MA in creative writing the following year. At a moment when many other photographers were creating large-scale color prints, Mann looked to photography’s past, investigating the visual and metaphorical potential of employing nineteenth-century technologies. She has long used an 8 x 10 bellows camera and has explored platinum,...

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Andrew Moore Biography American photographer Andrew Moore has garnered widespread recognition for his captivating photographic series. Spanning various locales and themes, Moore’s work masterfully captures the passage of time on both natural landscapes and built environments. Andrew Moore has a portfolio that includes extensive projects in Cuba, Russia, Bosnia, Times Square, Detroit, the High Plains, the American South, and, most recently, the Hudson Valley.

Andrew Moore was born in 1957 in Old Greenwich, CT. He pursued his education at Princeton University with a focus on photography. After finishing school in 1979, Moore moved to New Orleans, where he focused... View artist page

Todd Murphy Biography Todd Murphy (b. 1962; d. 2020) was born in Chicago and moved to Georgia as a child. After studying art at the University of Georgia, he began his artistic career in Atlanta. Primarily known for his paintings and sculptures, Murphy’s work can be described as having “underlying artistic themes of metamorphosis, illusion, and life-in-the moment.” Through constantly reinventing the mediums that he employs, Todd Murphy does not conform strictly to one medium. However, Todd Murphy has used photography as the foundation of his work throughout his career seen in his paintings and as studies for his sculptural... View artist page

Irving Penn Biography Irving Penn, an American photographer most notably known for his more than sixty years of work and sophisticated fashion images in numerous issues of Vogue magazine, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey. His rise in art and photography began when he first attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts in 1934. While he initially viewed himself as an aspiring painter, his career course shifted when he began studying design with Alexey Brodovitch, his teacher and mentor. During his time studying with Brodovitch, Irving Penn studied painting, drawing, industrial arts, and graphics. This encounter ultimately allowed Irving... View artist page

Alex Prager Biography Alex Prager is a known American art photographer and filmmaker, based in Los Angeles, California, who draws inspiration from a wide range of influences and references, including Old Hollywood aesthetics, pop culture, and street photography. Her works are elaborately staged scenes that merge past and contemporary sources to create a sense of ambiguity. Much of Prager's photographs invite those viewing her work to 'complete the story' and speculate the narrative. A set of popular series, Polyester (2007), The Big Valley (2008) , and Week-End (2009), depicts images of women expressing distress, despair, or contemplation that implants an... View artist page

Steve Schapiro Biography

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...

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Mark Steinmetz Biography

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...

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Massimo Vitali Biography

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...

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Christian Walker Biography

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...

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Brett Weston Biography Brett Weston (199-1993) was one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, most renowned for his strong creations based on Western landscapes, natural forms, and his exceptional printing style. Weston was part of Group f/64, a small yet well-known group of photographers in California who favored large-format view cameras, straight and uncropped photos, as well as stark black and white prints in the 1930s.

At the age of 13, in 1925, Weston was removed from school to become his father's photography apprentice in Mexico City. Having been surrounded by revolutionary artists of the day,... View artist page

Garry Winogrand Biography Garry Winogrand, called “the central photographer of his generation” in 1978 by John Szarkowski, is considered one of the most influential photographers of the second half of the twentieth century. Born in New York, where he lived and worked for much of his life, Winogrand studied painting at City College and Columbia University. He then went on to study photography at The New School with Alexey Brodovich, the art director at Harper’s Bazaar. He got his start in commercial photography but soon found his photographic passion was in making his own pictures on the streets of New... View artist page