Artists

  • Alfredo Jaar

    Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York City. He was born in Santiago de Chile. This work references the date of the...
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  • Nobuyoshi Araki

    Photographing subjects as diverse as flowers, kinbaku (the Japanese art of rope-tying), and Tokyo street scenes, Nobuyoshi Araki continues to astound viewers with a plethora of beautiful and provocative images....
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  • Richard Avedon

    Richard Avedon (1923-2004) was born and lived in New York City. His interest in photography began at an early age, and he joined the Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA) camera...
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  • Jeff Bark

    Jeff Bark's monumental photographs plumb the depths of a collective human experience in the manner of history painting's grand masters, from Titian to Jacques-Louis David, while drawing from the tradition...
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  • Peter Beard

    Peter Beard (American, b.1938) is a photographer and writer known for his collage work and extensive diaries. While moving around between Long Island, New York City, and Alabama during his...
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  • Bruce Bernard

    Bruce Bernard was both a leading curator and editor, he was also an extraordinary photographer in his own right, a fact recognised two years after his death, by Tate Britain,...
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  • Karl Blossfeldt

    Strikingly modern and inherently beautiful, Karl Blossfeldt's photographs of plants, flowers and seed heads are as appealing today, as they were when they were first introduced to the public in...
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  • Guy Bourdin

    Guy Bourdin, born in Paris in 1928, was one of the most radical and influential fashion photographers of the twentieth century. His unique blend of surreal and erotic imagery filled...
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  • Bill Brandt

    Bill Brandt was one of the acknowledged masters of 20th century photography. Taken as a whole, his work constitutes one of the most varied and vivid social documents of Great...
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  • Brassaï

    “The man from Brasso”, the Hungary university town where he was raised, was born Gyula Halasz. He studied art in Budapest and then in Berlin. Son of a university professor...
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  • Marcelo Brodsky

    Marcelo Brodsky (1954) is a conceptual artist and Human Rights activist who uses photography to intervene in the ongoing debate about Argentina’s Dirty War (1976-1983). Framed by trauma and its...
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  • Robert Capa

    Born André Friedmann in Budapest, Robert Capa left Hungary in 1930 for Berlin, enrolled in the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik as a student of journalism and political science, and served...
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  • Henri Cartier-Bresson

    Henri Cartier-Bresson began traveling in 1930, at the age of twenty-two. For nearly half a century he was on the road most of the time, and the geographical range of...
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  • Alejandro Chaskielberg

    Alejandro Chaskielberg (Buenos Aires, 1977) began his career as a photojournalist, working in local newspapers and magazines. His vibrant use of colour and dramatic worldview are influenced by his time...
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  • Horacio Coppola

    Born July 31, 1906, Buenos Aires (died June 18, 2012) Horacio Coppola was an Argentinian photographer who documented the gritty dynamism of Buenos Aires in the 1930s through stunning black-and-white...
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  • Gerry Cranham

    Born in 1929, Gerry Cranham is a British photographer, who is widely regarded as the one of the foremost practitioners in sports photography. After five years in the army and...
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  • Georges Dambier

    George Dambier was born in Paris in April 1925. In early 1942, with WWII raging, Dambier, at age 17, began assisting the famous artist and poster designer Paul Colin. Colin...
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  • Siân Davey

    Siân Davey is a photographer with a background in Fine Art and Social Policy. She has worked as a humanist psychotherapist for the past 15 years, and it is this...
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  • John Davies

    'To view the landscape as a pictorial composition of elements is simplistic. To perceive the landscape within a set of rules (art, science, politics, religion, community, business, industry, sport and...
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  • John Deakin

    John Deakin (1912-1972), whose portraits are amoung the most significant in the history of 20th century photography, was a natural successor to August Sander and precursor of Diane Arbus -...
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  • Robert Doisneau

    Robert Doisneau was the ultimate storyteller. His pictures, well versed in the laws and lines of photographic communication, became synonymous with a way of life that we all now accept...
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  • Ron Van Dongen

    Many artists have created botanical studies for hundreds of years, using a wide variety of different mediums including photography. Portraying the beauty of the plant or flower has been of...
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  • Video display of Eamonn's latest project 'END.'

    Eamonn Doyle

    Born in Dublin in 1969, Eamonn Doyle graduated with a Diploma in Photography from IADT in 1991. He spent much of the next twenty years producing music and working in...
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  • Andrés Durán

    Andrés Durán (1974) is a visual artist whose work challenges the historical and urban landscape of his native city Santiago, Chile. Over the last decade his photography has included documenting...
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  • Michael Eastman

    Michael Eastman has established himself as one of the world's leading contemporary photographic artists. The self-taught photographer has spent four decades documenting interiors and facades in cities as diverse as...
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  • Dr Harold Edgerton

    Photography has illuminated so many areas of the 20th century, but none more so than the remarkable work by one of photography's true pioneers, Dr Harold Edgerton. As the inventor...
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  • Lucas Foglia

    Lucas Foglia grew up with his extended family on a small farm in the suburbs of New York City. While malls and supermarkets developed around them, they heated their house...
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  • Fernand Fonssagrives

    Fernand Fonssagrives (French 1910 - 2003) is revered as one of the earliest and greatest practitioners of 'beauty photography' in the 1940's. His most memorable work traces the unique partnership...
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  • Robert Frank

    Robert Frank was born in Zurich in 1924. He began his career in photography in the mid-1940s before emigrating to America in 1947. There his bold photographs brought him to...
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  • Manuel Franquelo

    The reflection that Manuel Franquelo sees of himself in his own dusty environment in his studio appears to come from a different planet to the erudite and friendly Renaissance man...
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  • Masahisa Fukase

    Masahisa Fukase (1934-2012) is renowned for his obsessive, intense and deeply introspective photography through which he articulated his passionate and occasionally violent life. Fukase’s body of work is remarkable for...
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  • Adam Fuss

    Adam Fuss is a British photographer who lives and works in New York. To make this 'spore' print, Fuss placed the caps of mushrooms face down on paper and covered...
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  • Juana Gomez embroidering for her upcoming exhibition at Michael Hoppen Gallery

    Juana Gómez

    'We are so addicted to patterns that we let them sneak into almost everything we do. Moreover, these patterns are the key to predicting many aspects of our behavior, even...
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  • Harry Gruyaert

    Born in Belgium in 1941, Harry Gruyaert studied photography and film-making. He made a few films as director of photography for Flemish television before turning to color photographs in his...
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  • Hiroshi Hamaya

    Hiroshi Hamaya (1915-1999) Born and raised in Tokyo, Hiroshi Hamaya is considered to have been one of the most eminent Japanese documentary photographers of the 20th Century. Working as an...
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  • Hisaji Hara

    Hisaji Hara was born in Tokyo in 1964 and graduated from the Musahino Art University in 1986. In 1993 he emigrated to the United States and worked as a director...
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  • Stan Healy

    Stan Healy was born in Missoula, Montana, in 1918. He graduated from the University of Montana with a bachelor's degree in journalism and, after serving in the U.S. army during...
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  • Lucien Hervé

    Lucien Hervé (b. 1910) is considered to be one of the great architectural photographers of the twentieth century. He collaborated with Le Corbusier from 1949 until the architect’s death in...
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  • Josef Hoflehner

    Josef Hoflehner was born in 1955 in Wels, Austria when the country was still under allied occupation. He grew up in a family where the camera was used so rarely...
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  • Scarlett Hooft Graafland

    Born in the Netherlands in 1973, Hooft Graafland is currently based in Amsterdam. She has studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem and Parsons...
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  • Kati Horna

    Both cosmopolitan and avant-garde, Kati Horna (1912-2000) is mainly known for her photos of the Spanish Civil War taken between 1937 and 1939 for an album commissioned by the Spanish...
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  • Eikoh Hosoe

    Eikoh Hosoe (1933-) Eikoh Hosoe is one of Japan's most iconic post-war photographers and filmmakers, recognized for his impeccable aesthetics and his legendary collaborations. Born Toshihiro Hosoe in 1933, Hosoe...
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  • Ishiuchi Miyako

    Ishiuchi Miyako (1947-) Ishiuchi Miyako began her photographic career shooting familiar streets and buildings in her hometown, Yokosuka, which had been transformed during the post-war period into one of the...
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  • Charles Jones

    Born in Wolverhampton in 1866, Charles Jones has been accepted by many as a photographic figure to remain forever mysterious. Little is known of the life of the man or...
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  • Colin Jones

    The art of photography remains so fascinating because of the individuals who arrive from unexpected places and take the medium through a lifetime of changes. The career of Colin Jones...
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  • Kikuji Kawada

    Born in the Ibaraki Prefecture in 1933, Kikuji Kawada is a renowned Japanese photographer. He co-founded the VIVO collective in 1959 with Akira Sato, Eikoh Hosoe, Ikko Narahara, Akira Tanno...
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  • William Klein

    After briefly studying painting, William Klein (b. 1928) came into contact with photography whilst working for an architect as a young artist. He had few preconceived notions about photographic practice...
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  • Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

    Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is a Finnish photographer who has worked in Britain since the 1960s. Born in Myllykoski, municipality of Sippola, Finland in 1948, Konttinen studied photography in London in the...
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  • Koichiro Kurita

    Born in Manchuria and educated in Japan, Koichiro Kurita made his commitment to photography early in life. First working in the 1960s for an advertising agency in Tokyo, he became...
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  • Sergio Larrain

    Sergio Larrain (1931-2012, born in Valparaiso, Chile) grew up in Chile, but left at age eighteen to study at the University of California, Berkeley. Upon his return he began taking...
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  • Jacques Henri Lartigue

    Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) took his first photograph in 1900 at the age of six. Born into privilege, Lartigue's father was a banker, and the family belonged to the upper French...
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  • Neil Libbert

    Born in Salford, Neil Libbert studied at the Regional College of Art in Manchester before starting to work as a photographer and opening his own studio in the city in...
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  • Herbert List

    Herbert List was a classically educated artist who combined a love of photography with a fascination for surrealism and classicism. Born into a prosperous Hamburg merchant family, List began an...
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  • Thomas Mailaender

    Thomas Mailaender (born 1979) is a French multimedia artist living and working between Paris and Marseille. Known for his use of a wide range of techniques including ceramic, photography, collage...
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  • Etienne-Jules Marey

    Étienne-Jules Marey’s work was significant in the development of cardiology, physical instrumentation, aviation, cinematography and the science of laboratory photography. He is widely considered to be a pioneer of photography...
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  • Enrique Metinides

    From 1948 until his forced retirement in 1979, the Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides took thousands of images and followed hundreds of stories in and around Mexico City. And what images...
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  • Ryuji Miyamoto

    Over the years, Ryuji Miyamoto has kept a watchful eye on Japan's cities as they underwent vertiginous changes. His intention has been to photodocument the demolitions and reconstructions of whole...
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  • Sarah Moon

    Ethereal and elegant, Sarah Moon's photographs are almost abstract in their painterly qualities. Texture, surface, seeing, believing, dreaming; it is difficult to summarise their content without pointing to the evident...
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  • Daido Moriyama: In Pictures

    Daido Moriyama

    Daido Moriyama (b.1938, Osaka) is one of Japan's leading figures in photography. Witness to the spectacular changes that transformed post WWII Japan, his black and white photographs express a fascination...
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  • Mrs Merryman

    This extraordinary and unique collection of original postcards, document the discoveries of Mrs. Merryman between 1937 and 1980. An avid collector, with an eye for the unusual, the images Mrs....
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  • Martin Munkásci

    Martin Munkásci was born in Kolozsvar, Austro-Hungary on may 18th , 1896. He died July 13th , 1963 in New York. Munkásci was a Hungarian newspaper writer and photographer whose...
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  • Eadweard Muybridge

    Eadweard Muybridge was born on 9 April 1830 the son of John and Susanna Muggeridge. Baptised as Edward James Muggeridge at All Saints Church, Kingston, he later changed his surname...
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  • Masatoshi Naito

    Born in Tokyo in 1938, Masatoshi Naito graduated from Waseda University in applied sciences and trained as a research scientist. A keen interest in the folkloric traditions of Japan led...
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  • Jim Naughten

    Jim Naughten is an artist who understands the transformative effects that photography can have on a subject. In each of his previous projects he has been concerned with reanimating history....
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  • Sohei Nishino

    In making his Diorama maps, Nishino combines photography, collage, cartography and psychogeography to create large prints of urban landscapes. Drawing inspiration from the 18th century Japanese mapmaker, Ino Tadataka, his...
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  • Simon Norfolk

    Born in Lagos in 1963, and educated in Oxford and Bristol, Simon Norfolk is a landscape photographer whose work over the past fifteen years has been themed around a probing...
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  • Ruth Orkin

    Ruth Orkin was an award-winning photojournalist and filmmaker. She was the only child of Mary Ruby, a silent-film actress, and Samuel Orkin, a manufacturer of toy boats called Orkin Craft....
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  • Tod Papageorge

    Taken between 1969 and 1991, these black and white photographs capture the primeval character of Central Park, a human tragedy and comedy in this particular vision of the garden of...
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  • David Parker

    David Parker was born in 1949 in Stafford, England. He originally trained as an engineer, and then as a commercial illustrator. An early interest in photography developed from a hobby...
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  • Paolo Pellegrin

    Paolo Pellegrin was born in 1964 in Rome. He studied architecture at L'Università la Sapienza, Rome, Italy before studying photography at the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia also in Rome. Between...
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  • Polly Penrose

    Polly Penrose studied Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts in London. She went on to work in Fashion Styling and after that worked for the photographer Tim Walker. She...
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  • Alex Prager

    Alex Prager is a self taught American photographer born in Los Angeles in 1979. Her nomadic upbringing saw her splitting time between Florida, California and Switzerland without truly settling down...
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  • Edward Quinn

    Edward Quinn, born 1920 in Ireland, lived and worked as a photographer from the 1950's on the Côte d'Azur. During the 'golden fifties' this was the playground of celebrities from...
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  • August Sander

    At the turn of the twentieth century August Sander was in military service and an assistant in a photographic studio in Trier; he then spent the following two years working...
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  • Akira Sato

    Akira Sato the Japanese photographer was born on the 30th of July 1930 in Tokyo. He was widely acclaimed for his iconic, graphic and experimental photographs of women and his...
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    Boris Savelev

    Boris Savelev was born in Chernovitz in 1947 and moved to Moscow in 1966. He is a graduate of the Institute of Aeronautics and joined the Moscow photography Club Novator...
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  • Flip Schulke

    Flip Schulke was one of America’s premier photojournalists for more than forty-five years. A native of New Ulm, Minnesota, and a graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, Schulke moved...
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  • Chloe Sells

    Chloe Sells (b.1976) divides her time between her home in Botswana, Africa, where she photographs with a large format camera, and London, England, where she processes and prints her work....
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  • Noé Sendas

    Noé Sendas (born in Brussels, 1972, lives and works in Berlin) began presenting his work in the late nineties. He resorts to different means of expression: video, sculpture, collage, drawing...
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  • Toshio Shibata

    Toshio Shibata explores the delicate balance and powerful juxtapositions between the landscape and the infinite ability of man to impose structure on that landscape. Seen through Shibata's large-format camera and...
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  • Kishin Shinoyama

    Kishin Shinoyama's (b. 1940) offerings from the 1960's not only document a decade, but are also invaluable to any survey of Tokyo photography from that period. His work reveals much...
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  • Sammy Slabbinck

    Sammy Slabbinck (born 1977) renders dynamic original paper collages, combining found imagery with contemporary compositional styles. The images are cut up into pieces and redistributed, playing with exaggeration and proportions....
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  • Joseph Szabo

    In 1978, as the school year drew to a close, two of Szabo's high school students, who had tickets to a Rolling Stone Concert, asked if he would like to...
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  • Keiichi Tanaami

    Keiichi Tanaami, born in 1936 in Tokyo , is one of the leading pop artists of postwar Japan , and has been active as a multi-genre artist since the 1960s....
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  • Miroslav Tichý

    Tichý is truly one of the great 'finds' of an unknown artist who worked on the outside edges of the art world. Following the communist takeover Tichý spent some eight...
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  • Shomei Tomatsu

    Shomei Tomatsu (1930 - 2012) was perhaps the most influential Japanese photographer of the post-war era. His raw, grainy and impressionistic style signalled a dramatic break with the quiet formalism...
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  • GREGOR TÖRZS

    Gregor Törzs lives and works in Berlin focusing mainly on art photography and platinum printing. In 2006 Törzs introduced his fine art photography with his series 'Boy on Safari', depicted...
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  • Yoshihiko Ueda

    Yoshihiko Ueda was born in Hyogo, 1957. After graduating from the Visual Arts College, Osaka, he studied under Masanobu Fukuda in 1980 and Taiji Arita in 1981, and started on...
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  • Yumiko Utsu

    If the proto-surrealist painter Arcimboldo had been a sushi chef, his creations might have looked something like Yumiko Utsu’s deliciously unsettling images. Combining the intricate techniques of food photography with...
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  • André Villers

    It is widely held that Cubism has always been confined to the mediums of painting, drawing and even sculpture. However, almost 50 years after the inception of Cubism, Pablo Picasso...
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  • Ellen Von Unwerth

    Ellen Von Unwerth worked as a fashion model for ten years before moving behind the camera. Quoted as saying 'Women are not just there to be admired, they are there...
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  • Photographer Tim Walker interviewed by Penny Martin on 3 June 2009 as a part of SHOWstudio’s ‘In Fashion’ series

    Tim Walker

    Walker's photographs are nostalgic for an era of innocence and exuberance; youthful imagination and a uniquely British aesthetic. At once modern yet familiar, his world is reminiscent of a childhood...
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  • Bradford Washburn

    Bradford Washburn (born June 7, 1910 in Cambridge and died January 10, 2007 in Lexington) was an American, internationally renowned photographer, cartographer, and expert on Alaska's mountains and glaciers. He...
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  • Weegee

    Weegee was born in 1899 in the Austrian province of Galicia, today part of Ukraine. His real name was Usher (later Arthur) Fellig and he was the second of seven...
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  • Harley Weir

    Harley Weir studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins before embarking on a career as a fashion photographer, moving back and forth between personal projects and commercial work with ease....
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  • Brett Weston

    Born in 1911, the son and apprentice of legendary photographer Edward Weston, Brett applied himself to photography from an early age. Moving with his father to Mexico, aged thirteen, he...
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  • Garry Winogrand

    Garry Winogrand was born in New York in 1928 and grew up in the then predominantly Jewish working-class area of the Bronx, where his father was a leather worker. As...
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  • Yu Yamauchi

    'I lived in a hut near the sumit of Mt. Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan, for 5 months straight, four years in a row, for a total of 600...
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