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26 de sept. de 2022 · Philippe Halsman – master portrait photographer of the 1940’s through to his death in 1979. He holds the distinction of having more covers of LIFE magazine than any other photographer at 101. He and surrealist painter Salvador Dali had an ongoing collaboration and friendship for 37 years, from which he published the book “Dali ...
20 de abr. de 2017 · When he saw the first few pictures, the curator wondered if he could possibly be looking at the work of a Life photographer he didn’t recognize. He had never heard of the man behind the hundred-some images inside the box.
This sentiment, expressed by the Photo League photographer Sid Grossman (1990.1139.1), encapsulates photography’s role in America in the 1940s and ’50s. The era saw the apotheosis of photojournalism and few photographers were unaffected by its rise, whether they joined the bandwagon or reacted against it.
Beginning in the 1940s, American photographer Eliot Porter produced subtle studies of birds and nature in which colour allowed him to render an unparalleled level of nuance. Appreciated for both their scientific and their aesthetic value, these photographs embodied the potential of colour.
30 de nov. de 2016 · Louis Faurer was a “photographer’s photographer”, one whose work was not known to a broad audience, or appreciated by the art world, but was loved by photographers. They saw in his pictures a purity of seeing, akin to what Faurer saw in the work of Walker Evans, the “poetic use of facts”.
2 de ago. de 2019 · The Women Photojournalists Who Blazed Trails in the 1940s and ’50s. An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society presents the work of six female photographers who worked for LIFE magazine...
Bill Brandt is arguably Britain’s greatest 20th Century photographer. Brassai (1899-1985) Brassai was a painter, writer, sculptor and film maker but is best remembered for his photography of night scenes from Paris in the early 1930s. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 - 2004)
