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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 …

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 …

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 …

Brian Griffin, Sliced Bread, London, 1983 © Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery-New York

PHOTO:Brian Griffin-Capitalist Realism

Without Brian Griffin, the world of portrait photography would be vastly different. Griffin’s diverse influences, including Surrealism and Renaissance masters and his …

Daniel Beltrá, Water collects in unnamed seasonal lake atop the Greenland ice sheet, 75 miles southeast of Ilulissat. With the Earth’s warming climate, the melt season now stretches 70 days longer than it did in the early 1970s, 2014. From the series Greenland, Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Edelman Gallery-Chicago

PHOTO:FotoFest 2016 Biennial Houston

FotoFest is an international non-profit photographic arts and education organization based in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1983, the organization was established to …

Thomas Struth

PHOTO:Thomas Struth-Nature & Politics

Τhomas Struth is renowned for his practice of creating singular images, each within strictly segregated subject fields: architecture, portraiture, landscape and, most …

PHOTO:Robert Mapplethorpe-XYZ

Robert Mapplethorpe lived a life of passion in the New York underground and rock scenes in the ‘70s and ‘80s. That passion …

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Aegean Sea - Pilion, 1990, © Hiroshi Sugimoto, Fundación MAPFRE Archive

PHOTO:Hiroshi Sugimoto -Black Box

A multidisciplinary artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto works with photography, sculpture, architecture and installation. A photographer since the ‘70s, his work deals with history …