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Peter Lindbergh, CORDULA REYER, CAMARGUE, France, 1993, © Peter Lindbergh, Courtesy Gagosian Gallery

PHOTO PREVIEW:Peter Lindbergh

When John Keats wrote “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”, he intended that art could sublimate and immortalise beauty and make it eternal, …

PHOTO:Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie described herself in a 1994 Los Angeles Times article as “A kind of twisted social documentary photographer”. Long before earning …

Annemarie Heinrich

PHOTO:Annemarie Heinrich

Annemarie Heinrich was a photographer or more accurately a portraiture artist. Specializing in glamorous portraits as well as magnificent chiaroscuro nudes, Heinrich’s …

Jeff Wall

PHOTO:Jeff Wall

Throughout his career Jeff Wall has consistently sought new ways of picture making, expanding the possibilities of the photographic medium. Beginning with …

PHOTO:Sharon Lockhart

Sharon Lockhart is both a filmmaker and a photographer and she moves seamlessly between the two. Her work frames the quiet moments …

Tina Modotti

PHOTO:Tina Modotti

Tina Modotti (Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti, 16/8/1896-6/1/42) was a photographer, actress and political activist. Her career as a photographer only spanned about …

PHOTO:Photo-Poetics

The exhibition “Photo-Poetics: An Anthology” examines an important new development in contemporary photography, offering an opportunity to define the concerns of a …

PHOTO:Tracey Moffatt

Tracey Moffatt will be the sole artist representing Australia at the 57th, Venice Biennale 2017. Tracey Moffatt is one of Australia’s most …

PHOTO:Winter Pictures in Colour

Nature was and is the source of inspiration for the older but also the contemporary photographers. Landscape Photos have occasionally captured by …

PHOTO:Harry Morey Callahan

Harry Morey Callahan (22/10/12-15/3/99) was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th Century and is best known for utilizing the …

PHOTO:Dave Jordano

Continuing the tradition of the great American photographers, Dave Jordano, a Detroit native with life-long family ties there, thinks the recent media …

Cindy Sherman, Untitled # 96, 1981 © Co urtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York

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 …

PHOTO:American Moments

The Phillips Collection, opened in 1921, is America’s first museum of modern art, featuring a permanent Collection of nearly 3,000 works by …