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Photography 1.
20 Summaries of Photographers.
1. Jason Fulford
Jason Fulford has been depicting "the simultaneous feeling of sad and funny" throughout his career. Born in Atlanta, GA, and now living in Scranton, PA, Fulford has a BA from Pratt Institute in New York. His work has been exhibited in New York, Seattle, Copenhagen, Budapest, Atlanta and Kansas City, and has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Life, Newsweek, Suddeutche Zeitung, among many more. His photographs have also graced the covers of books published by virtually every major publishing house
2. Lee Friedlander
Friedlander studied photography at the Art Center of Los Angeles. In 1956, he moved to New York City where he photographed jazz musicians for record covers. His early work was influenced by Eugène Atget, Robert Frank, and Walker Evans. In 1960, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded Friedlander a grant to focus on his art and made subsequent grants in 1962 and 1977.
3. Walker Evans
(November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975)Evans was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera. He wrote that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent. Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums, and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art
4. tseng kwong chi
Born in the British colony of Hong Kong in 1950, Tseng Kwong Chi emigrated with his family to Vancouver, Canada in 1966 at age 16, where he attended the University of British Columbia. Before he left for college, Tseng revealed his homosexuality to his parents. After living briefly in Montreal, he pursued formal art training in Paris, where he remained for most of the 1970’s. Though trained in traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy in Hong Kong and western painting and graphic arts in Vancouver and Paris, Tseng Kwong Chi found his métier as a photographer.
5. Uta Barth
(born 1958 in Berlin) is a photographer who lives and works in Los Angeles. Barth was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004-05. [1]
Barth has used photography exclusively in her aesthetic projects, experimenting with depth of field, focus and framing to take photographs that are suggestive rather than descriptive, alluding to places rather than describing them explicitly. Her interiors and landscapes engage the viewer in an almost subliminal way, testing memory, intellect and habitual responses.
6. John Szarkowski
(December 18, 1925 – July 7, 2007) was an influential photographer, curator, historian, and critic. From 1962 to 1991 Szarkowski was the Director of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art. He grew up in the small northern Wisconsin city of Ashland, and became interested in photography at age eleven. In World War II, Szarkowski served in the U.S. Army, after which he graduated in 1948 in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He then began his career as a museum photographer at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
7. Robert Mapplethorpe
Born in 1946, the third of six children. He remembered a very secure childhood on Long Island, which he summed up by saying, “I come from suburban America. It was a very safe environment, and it was a good place to come from in that it was a good place to leave.” He received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he produced artwork in a variety of media.
8. Hamish Fulton
Since the early 1970s Hamish Fulton (born 1946) has been labeled as a sculptor, photographer, Conceptual artist and Land artist. Fulton, however, characterizes himself as a 'walking artist'.
9. Lucas Samaras was born in Kastoria, Greece. He studied at Rutgers University on a scholarship, where he met Allan Kaprow and George Segal. He participated in Kaprow's "Happenings," and posed for Segal's plastic sculptures. Samaras previously worked in painting, sculpture, and performance art, before beginning work in photography.
10. William Wegman
An artist best known as a photographer who has created a series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses. Wegman reportedly originally intended to pursue a career as a painter.
11. Sandy Skoglund
An American photographer and installation artist. Skoglund creates surrealist images by building elaborate sets or tableaux, furnishing them with carefully selected colored furniture and other objects, a process of which takes her months to complete. Finally, she photographs the set, complete with actors. The works are characterized by an overwhelming amount of one object and either bright, contrasting colors or a monochromatic color scheme.
12. Joel-Peter Witkin
An American photographer, Witkin was born to a Jewish father and Roman Catholic mother. He has a twin brother, Jerome Witkin, who also plays a significant role in the art world for his realistic paintings. Witkin's parents divorced when Witkin was young because they were unable to transcend their religious differences. He attended grammar school at Saint Cecelia's in Brooklyn and went on to Grover Cleveland High School. He worked as war photographer between 1961 and 1964 during the Vietnam war. In 1967, he decided to work as a freelance photographer and became City Walls Inc. official photographer.
13. Berenice Abbott
An American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s.
14. Mitch Epstein
His photographic work, which he has complemented with sporadic incursions into film and video art, is partly responsible for the New Color movement in the U.S. His early American photographs, Joanna Lehan writes, “bridge the gap between Winogrand’s street and Sternfeld and Shore’s big picture.” Epstein’s photography is conceived as projects for exhibition that are later recontextualized through their publication as artist’s books.
15. Brett Weston
An American photographer and the second son of photographer Edward Weston. Brett’s photographs often approach abstraction, with subjects that are difficult to decipher. He is best known for his work in the dunes around Oceano, California, a subject that he shared with his father Edward Weston.
16. Ansel Easton Adams
An American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West. His studio, which is still owned by the Adams family, is now the “Ansel Adams Gallery”.
17. Eugène Atget
A French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris.
18. Arnold Genthe
A photographer, known for his photos of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
19. Edward Henry Weston
An American photographer, and co-founder of Group f/64. Most of his work was done using an 8 by 10 inch view camera.
20. Edward Steichen
An American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator, born in Bivange, Luxembourg. His family moved to the United States in 1881 and he became a naturalized citizen in 1900. Having established himself as a fine art painter in the beginning of the 20th century, Steichen assumed the pictorialist approach in photography and proved himself a master of it.
