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. 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. 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. With Magnum to recommend him to the British authorities, Koudelka applied for a three-month working visa and fled to England in 1970, where he applied for political asylum and stayed for more than a decade. Work[edit] 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. 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. 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] 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. Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Philip-Lorca diCorcia (born 1951) is an American photographer. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 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. Mark Morrisroe. 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] 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. 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.
