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Cindy Sherman is a contemporary master of socially critical photography. She is a key figure of the “Pictures Generation”. At first painting in a super-realist style in art school during the aftermath of American Feminism, Sherman turned to photography toward the end of the ‘70s in order to explore a …
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016 is an annual award established by The Photographers’ Gallery, London in 1996 and in partnership …
Lee Miller (1907-1977) is one of the most versatile US-photographers and photo-journalists of the 20th Century. She united opposed genres such as …
Roy DeCarava began his career as a painter and turned to photography in the mid ‘40s to gather information for his canvases. …
Through photography, film and installation, Stan Douglas has, since the late ‘80s, examined complex intersections of narrative, fact and fiction while scrutinizing …
Characteristic of Henk’s Wildschut work is a contemplative and often distant view on the people and situations he photographs which lends a …
Without Brian Griffin, the world of portrait photography would be vastly different. Griffin’s diverse influences, including Surrealism and Renaissance masters and his …
Since the ‘80s, the Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama has been developing a body of work mainly focused on an architectural and landscaped …
Since establishing his reputation in ‘90s London subculture, Wolfgang Tillmans has become one of the most influential artists of today. For his …
FotoFest is an international non-profit photographic arts and education organization based in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1983, the organization was established to …
Τhomas Struth is renowned for his practice of creating singular images, each within strictly segregated subject fields: architecture, portraiture, landscape and, most …
Robert Mapplethorpe lived a life of passion in the New York underground and rock scenes in the ‘70s and ‘80s. That passion …
A multidisciplinary artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto works with photography, sculpture, architecture and installation. A photographer since the ‘70s, his work deals with history …
After completing her training at the Schmölz-Huth Studio, Candida Höfer began studying under the influential photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher between 1976-1982. …
Japanese photography is historically dominated by men, but beginning in the ‘90s, a number of young female photographers garnered attention by making …
In Joe Spence’s practice, the performative efficacy of autopathography has primarily to do with its therapeutic power and its ability to facilitate …
Daido Moriyama one of Japan’s leading figures, is still a relentless force in the photography world, and a constant source of inspiration …
When John Keats wrote “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”, he intended that art could sublimate and immortalise beauty and make it eternal, …
In his 20 years of work, the photographs of Gregory Crewdson have garnered an international following. Each series: “Twilight”, “Dream House” and …
Rula Halawani was born, grew up and still lives in the Mount of Olives district in East Jerusalem. Growing up under occupation …
Jacques Henri Lartigue focused his camera on the carefree existence in and around his own family circle. Lartigue is above all famous …
Catherine Opie described herself in a 1994 Los Angeles Times article as “A kind of twisted social documentary photographer”. Long before earning …
Annemarie Heinrich was a photographer or more accurately a portraiture artist. Specializing in glamorous portraits as well as magnificent chiaroscuro nudes, Heinrich’s …
Sharon Lockhart is both a filmmaker and a photographer and she moves seamlessly between the two. Her work frames the quiet moments …
