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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 …

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 …

Per Bak Jensen

PHOTO:Per Bak Jensen

Per Bak Jensen (22/4/49- ) is a pioneer of Contemporary landscape photography. In his tireless search for photographic expression, he has created …

PHOTO:Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus was one of the most original and influential American Photographers of the 20th Century and was known for her photographs …

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 …