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Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, Broken Street Line, 2008, © Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, Courtesy of the artists, RaebernonStenglin-Zurich. Peter Lav-Copenhagen and Detroit Institute of Arts

PHOTO:The Open Road

The first successful road trip in U.S.A. by automobile took place in 1903 by H. Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker. The first woman to cross the American landscape by car was Alice Ramsey with three female passengers in 1909, she left from New York and traveled 59 days to …

Harry Morey Callahan, Egypt, 1978, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of The Rossy Family Foundation, © The Estate of Harry Callahan, Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery-New York and Vancouver Art Gallery

PHOTO:Harry Callahan -The Street

Harry Callahan was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th Century. His photography is exploratory rather than evolutionary. He chose …

Bas Jan Ader, Studies on the Road to a new Neo Plasticism, 1971, © The Estate of Bas Jan Ader / Mary Sue Ader Andersen, 2016 / The Artist Rights Society (ARS)-New York, Courtesy Meliksetian|Briggs - Los Angeles and Metro Pictures - New York

PHOTO:Bas Jan Ader

Bas Jan Ader was a unique figure in the art of ‘60s and ’70s. Almost dangerous in its level of seduction, Ader’s …

Cindy Sherman, Untitled #424, 2004, © The artist, Courtesy: The artist and Metro Pictures-New York

PHOTO:Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman’s own image is at the centre of an inspiring array of character studies, developed over decades. Sherman gained international recognition …

Nobuyoshi Araki

PHOTO: Nobuyoshi Araki In B&W

The legendary Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki (25/5/40- ), celebrated for his works exploring the theme of Eros and Tanathos, successfully depicting desire, …

Stratos Kalafatis, The pig and other stories, Bernier/Eliades Gallery

PHOTO:Stratos Kalafatis

Stratos Kalafatis is using the square format, a difficult format because there is no dominant axis, but in his hands gives an …

Bruce Davidson

PHOTO:Bruce Davidson

Bruce Davidson was given his first camera in 1940, when he was just seven years old. It was, he says, “A primitive …

Roberto Donetta, Four Children in Leafs-Bleniotal, © Fondazione Archivio Fotografico Roberto Donetta-Corzoneso

PHOTO:Roberto Donetta

The history of the Canton of Ticino, the Italian-speaking Swiss territory to the south of the Alps, was until recently profoundly marked …

Dorothea Lange

PHOTO:Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange (26/5/1895-11/10/1965) has been called one of America’s greatest documentary photographers. Her photographs of migrant farm workers and the rural poor …

Nobuyoshi Araki

PHOTO:Nobuyoshi Araki In Color

The legendary Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki (25/5/40- ), celebrated for his works exploring the theme of Eros and Tanathos, successfully depicting desire, …

Cindy Sherman, Exhibition View, Metro Pictures Gallery Archive

PHOTO:Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman is a contemporary master of socially critical photography. She is a key figure of the “Pictures Generation”. At first painting …

Martin Munkácsi

PHOTO:Martin Munkácsi

In 1933, photographer Martin Munkácsi (18/5-1896-13/7/1963), made history and changed the world of photography forever when he took the first spontaneous fashion …

Dimitris Lempesis

PHOTO:Dimitris Lempesis

Dimitris Lempesis with his lens, observes and lists the Landscapes of Greece, initially and then he is spiriting the “Neighborhoods of the …

Roy DeCarava, Lonely Women, 1960, courtesy Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art

PHOTO:Roy DeCarava -New York 19

Roy DeCarava began his career as a painter and turned to photography in the mid ‘40s to gather information for his canvases.  …

Stan Douglas, Hogan’s Alley, 2014, © Stan Douglas, courtesy David Zwirner Gallery

PHOTO:Stan Douglas

Through photography, film and installation, Stan Douglas has, since the late ‘80s, examined complex intersections of narrative, fact and fiction while scrutinizing …

Nadar , Photos of Paris from Balloon

PHOTO:Nadar

Gaspard Félix Tournachon known as Nadar (6/4/1820-23/3/1910) wasn’t just gifted artistically, he was technically ahead of his time, he had the ability …

Robert Capa, Pier -Socoa, near Saint-Jean-de-Luz France, August 1951, International Center of Photography, New York, © Robert Capa/International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos

PHOTO:Capa in Color

Robert Capa, is the photographer whose name is synonymous with war photos, from 1938 Robert Capa regularly used color film until his …