Duane Michals
Duane Michals (b. 1932, McKeesport, PA) Duane Michals, an American photographer renowned for his distinctive style, crafts compelling narratives through sequences of images. Employing a blend of visuals and text reminiscent of cinematic storytelling, his signature technique is exemplified in works such as “Things are Queer” (1972), comprising a series of nine photographs.Michals once remarked, […]
Pierre Cordier
Pierre Cordier Born Jan 28, 1933 in Brussels, Belgium. Inventor of the ground breaking chemigram technique. A camera-less photographic technique which combines painting, science and photography. The chemigram combines the physics of painting (varnish, wax, oil) and the chemistry of photography – photosensitive emulsion, developer, fixer; without a camera, without an enlarger, and in full […]
Anaïs Tondeur
Anaïs Tondeur. Born in 1985 Camera-less photography, rayogram made in the exclusion zone at Chernobyl. https://anaistondeur.com/ From Anais website: – On Saturday, April 26th, 1986, at 1:23:58 a.m. local time, a test in Chernobyl nuclear plant takes a disastrous turn. The core of reactor No.4 explodes, emitting a plume of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere […]
Joan Miró i Ferrà
Joan Miró i Ferrà 1893 – 1983 Miro was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. There’s a museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, and was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975. Miró constantly experimented and was forever flirting with non-objectivity. His signature pictorial signs, biomorphic forms, […]
Alvin Langdon Coburn
Alvin Langdon Coburn(June 11, 1882 – November 23, 1966)A brilliant experimental photographer, way ahead of his time. Coburn was the first photographer to abstract photographs and to use elevated viewpoints, he was constantly experimenting, looking for new ways to take photographs. He was an accomplished photographer by the age of eight and invented a kaleidoscopic […]
Barbara Hepworth
Barbara Hepworth 1903-1975 Barbara Hepworth was born in Wakefield on 10th January 1903 Hepworth trained in sculpture at Leeds School of Art (1920-1) and, on a county scholarship, at the Royal College of Art (1921-4) where she met sculptor Henry Moore. She moved to Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson and their young family in […]
Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen Edward Steichen (1879-1973) Steichen was widely thought of as being photography’s greatest artist (https://iphf.org/). “More than any other photographer, he stretched the technical parameters of the medium through mastery of a range of printing processes.” (Holme, 1905). He produced spectacularly toned prints by skilfully applying successive layers of pigment to gum bichromate or […]
Tetyana Yablonska
Tetyana Nilivna Yablonska 1917 – 2005 was a Ukrainian painter. Her early vital pictures were devoted to the work and life of Ukrainian people. She moved to general images of nature, delivering a subtlety of plastic and color rhythms. She studied at the Kiev State Institute of Art (1941), the studio of Fedir Krychevsky. She […]
Louise Bourgeois
Louise BourgeoisLouise Joséphine Bourgeois (1911 – 2010) was a French-American artist. Best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art nspired by her own memories and experiences, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and print maker. Her career spanned eight decades and is one of the great figures of modern and contemporary art. Whatever materials […]
Irving Penn
Irving Penn (1917-2009)https://irvingpenn.org/ Irving Penn is one of the leading photographers of our time. He worked in both the commercial and artistic fields. In 1985, he won the prestigious Hasselblad Award. A major part of Penn’s work for Vogue consisted of portraits of celebrities, artists, writers, and other personalities relevant to the reporting valued by […]