W. Eugene Smith. William Eugene Smith (December 30, 1918 – October 15, 1978), was an American photojournalist known for his refusal to compromise professional standards and his brutally vivid World War II photographs. Life and early work[edit] War work[edit] As a correspondent for Ziff-Davis Publishing, and then again Life Magazine, Smith was often on the front lines in the Pacific theater of World War II. He was with the American forces during their island-hopping offensive against Japan, photographing U.S. 1950s[edit] Smith severed his ties with Life because of the way the magazine had used his photographs of Albert Schweitzer. Jazz Loft Project[edit] The project is preserving and cataloging Smith's tapes, researching the photographs, and obtaining oral history interviews with all surviving loft participants.
Japan and Minamata[edit] Death[edit] Smith died of a massive stroke on October 15, 1978 in Tucson, Arizona. Legacy[edit] Smith was perhaps the originator and arguably the master of the photo-essay. Josef Koudelka. Josef Koudelka (born January 10, 1938) is a Czech photographer. Biography[edit] Josef Koudelka was born in 1938 in Boskovice, Moravia. He began photographing his family and the surroundings with a 6 x 6 Bakelite camera.
He studied at the Czech Technical University in Prague (CVUT) between 1956 and 1961, receiving a Degree in Engineering in 1961. He staged his first photographic exhibition the same year. Later he worked as an aeronautical engineer in Prague and Bratislava. He began taking commissions from theatre magazines, and regularly photographed stage productions at Prague's Theatre Behind the Gate on a Rolleiflex camera. He had returned from a project photographing gypsies in Romania just two days before the Soviet invasion, in August 1968. His pictures of the events became dramatic international symbols. He and his work received support and acknowledgment from his friend the French photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Work[edit] Quotes[edit] "When I photograph, I do not think much. Garry Winogrand. Garry Winogrand (14 January 1928, New York City – 19 March 1984, Tijuana, Mexico) was a street photographer known for his portrayal of the United States in the mid-20th century. John Szarkowski called him the central photographer of his generation.[1] Winogrand was known for his portrayal of American life in the early 1960s. Many of his photographs depict the social issues of his time and in the role of media in shaping attitudes. Winogrand's photographs of the Bronx Zoo and the Coney Island Aquarium made up his first book The Animals (1969), a collection of pictures that observes the connections between humans and animals. His book Public Relations (1977) shows press conferences, protesters beaten by cops, and museum parties. In Stock Photographs (1980), Winogrand published his views of the Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo.
Biography[edit] Winogrand studied painting at City College of New York and painting and photography at Columbia University in New York City in 1948. Books[edit] Lothar Wolleh. Lothar Wolleh (January 20, 1930 – September 28, 1979) was a well-known German photographer. Until the end of the sixties, Lothar Wolleh worked as a commercial photographer. He took portraits of international contemporary painters, sculptors and performance artists. Altogether, he photographed about 109 artists, including known personalities such as Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Dieter Roth, Jean Tinguely, René Magritte, Günther Uecker, Gerhard Richter, Edward Kienholz, Otto Piene, and Christo.[1] Life[edit] Lothar Wolleh spent his youth in a Germany stamped by war and Nazism.
In the years from 1946 to 1948 he studied "concrete painting"[clarification needed] in the elementary school class at the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst in Berlin-Weißensee. As a young man, he was arrested by the Russian occupying forces on suspicion of spying, and was condemned to 15 years forced labour and underground mining in Siberia. Out of this project several comprehensive photobook-projects evolved: Work[edit] Miroslav Tichý. His soft focus, fleeting glimpses of the women of Kyjov are skewed, spotted and badly printed — flawed by the limitations of his primitive equipment and a series of deliberate processing mistakes meant to add poetic imperfections.[3] Of his technical methods, Tichy has said, "First of all, you have to have a bad camera", and, "If you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world. "[4][5] Tichý died on April 12, 2011 in Kyjov, Czech Republic.[6] Early life[edit] Miroslav Tichý was born in 1926 in the village of Nětčice, part of the town of Kyjov (now South Moravian Region), Czechoslovakia.[7] He was an introverted child who did well in school.[4] When he returned to Kyjov, he lived with his parents on a small disability pension, and painted and drew for himself in his own style.
Following the 1968 Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, private property was nationalized. Approach to photography[edit] According to a review by R. Artistic aspects[edit] Jack Pierson. Jack Pierson (born 1960 in Plymouth, Massachusetts) is a photographer and an artist. He studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.
Pierson has made a name for himself with a body of work that includes photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artists books. His "Self-Portrait" series was shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and his works are collected by major museums worldwide. Jack Pierson currently divides his time between his home and studio in the Southern California desert near Joshua Tree National Park and New York. He has photographed many well-known celebrities and models, including Michael Bergin, Naomi Campbell, Snoop Dogg, Massimiliano Neri, Brad Pitt, and Antonio Sabato Jr.
Work[edit] Pierson first began making his Word Sculptures in 1991, utilizing found objects – mismatched letters salvaged from junkyards, old movie marquees, roadside diners, Las Vegas casinos, and other forsaken enterprises. Other projects[edit] Private life[edit] Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Philip-Lorca diCorcia (born 1951) is an American photographer. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Afterwards diCorcia attended Yale University where he received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography in 1979. He now lives and works in New York, and teaches at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.[1] Biography[edit] DiCorcia was born in 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut.
Work[edit] Brent Booth, 21 years old, Des Moines, Iowa, $30 DiCorcia alternates between informal snapshots and iconic quality staged compositions that often have a baroque theatricality.[2] Using a carefully planned staging, he takes everyday occurrences beyond the realm of banality, trying to inspire in his picture's spectators an awareness of the psychology and emotion contained in real-life situations.[3] His work could be described as documentary photography mixed with the fictional world of cinema and advertising, which creates a powerful link between reality, fantasy and desire.[2] David Armstrong (photographer)
David Armstrong is a photographer based out of New York. Armstrong was born in 1954, in Arlington, Massachusetts. He is openly homosexual, and uses this in his photography. Armstrong entered into the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as a painting major, but soon switched to photography after studying alongside Nan Goldin, the photographer with whom he became friends with at the age of 14.[1] He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Cooper Union from 1974–78, and he earned a B.F.A from Tufts University in 1988 and Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art in Boston.[2] During the late 1970s, Armstrong became associated with “The Boston School,” which included artists such as Nan Goldin, Mark Morrisroe and Jack Pierson. Their aesthetic was based on intimate snapshot portraits in saturated color.[3] In 1981, Armstrong created a series of black-and-white portraits which he showed at PS1’s “New York/New Wave” exhibition.
David Armstrong and Nan Goldin. Five of Boston. Mark Morrisroe. Self Portrait (to Brent), 1982, Mark Morrisroe Mark Morrisroe (January 10, 1959 in Malden, Massachusetts - July 24, 1989 in Jersey City, New Jersey) was a performance artist and photographer. He is known for his performances and photographs, which were germane in the development of the punk scene in Boston in the 70's and the art world boom of the mid to late 80's in NYC. By the year of his death he had 2,000 pieces of work to his name.[1] Life and career[edit] His career as a photographer began when he was given a Polaroid Model 195 Land camera.
Morrisroe died on July 24, 1989 from complications of HIV. Filmography[edit] Exhibitions[edit] "His work was exhibited by Pat Hearn Gallery from 1985 onward, including solo exhibitions in 1986 and 1988, His photographs have been included in two group shows at Artists Space: Split Vision, in 1985 (curated by Robert Mapplethorpe): and Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, 1989 (curated by Nan Goldin). Publications[edit] See also[edit] Five of Boston. Ryan McGinley. Ryan McGinley (born October 17, 1977) is an American photographer living in New York City who began making photographs in 1998. In 2003, at the age of 25, McGinley was one of the youngest artists to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He was also named Photographer of the Year in 2003 by American Photo Magazine.[1] In 2007 McGinley was awarded the Young Photographer Infinity Award by the International Center of Photography.[2] Early life and education[edit] Ryan David McGinley, born in Ramsey, New Jersey, is the youngest of eight children.
From an early age his peers and mentors were skateboarders, graffiti writers, musicians, and artists that were considered to be on the fringes of society. He enrolled as a graphic design student[3] at Parsons School of Design in New York in 1995. Work[edit] McGinley had his first public exhibition in 2000 at 420 West Broadway in Manhattan in a DIY opening. Music[edit] Editorial work[edit] Short films[edit] Exhibitions[edit]
Nan Goldin. American photographer Nancy "Nan" Goldin (born September 12, 1953) is an American photographer. Her work often explores LGBT bodies, moments of intimacy, the HIV crisis, and the opioid epidemic. Her most notable work is The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986), which documents the post-Stonewall gay subculture and Goldin's family and friends. She lives and works in New York City, Berlin, and Paris. Early life[edit] The Hug, NYC, 1980, Cibachrome print by Goldin. Goldin was born in Washington, D.C. in 1953[1] and grew up in the Boston suburb of Lexington to middle-class Jewish parents. This was in 1965, when teenage suicide was a taboo subject.
Career[edit] Following graduation, Goldin moved to New York City.[12] She began documenting the post-punk new-wave music scene, along with the city's vibrant, post-Stonewall gay subculture of the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 2000, her hand was injured and she currently retains less ability to turn it than in the past.[20] Activism[edit] Criticism[edit] Juergen Teller. Vivienne Westwood spring/summer 2015 advertisement Sonia Rykiel spring/summer 2015 advertisement Louis Vuitton spring/summer 2015 advertisement Louis Vuitton spring/summer 2015 advertisement Céline spring/summer 2015.