Task 1 (Part 1) Analysing Contemporary Photographers

HOLLY ANDRES

Holly Andres was born in Missoula, Montana in 1977. b. Holly Andres uses photography to examine the complexities of childhood, the fleeting nature of memory, and female introspection. Typically her images rely on a tension between an apparently approachable subject matter and a darker, sometimes disturbing subtext. She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Istanbul, Turkey and Portland Oregon where she lives and works. Her work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Time, Art in America, Artforum, Exit Magazine, Art News, Modern Painters, Oprah Magazine, Elle Magazine, The LA Times, Blink and Art Ltd. – which profiled her as one of 15 emerging West Coast artists under the age of 35.She received her B.F.A. from the University of Montana in 2002, and her M.F.A. from Portland State University in 2004

SID AVERY

Sid Avery (1918 – 2002) was an American photographer and director who was best known for capturing the private moments of legendary Hollywood celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn. He founded the Hollywood Photographer's Archive (HPA) and which is know today as mptvimages.com in an effort to preserve the work of the early Hollywood photographers.

ROGER BALLEN

Born in New York City, Roger Ballen has lived and worked in Johannesburg for over thirty years. Using the camera as a means of self-expression, he photographed civil rights activists and Vietnam War protesters of the 1960s. He obtained a Bachelors degree in Psychology at the University of California - Berkeley. His work is included in the Museum of Modern Art and Victoria and Albert Museum. Ballen has had exhibitions at the National Library of Australia and University of Auckland, New Zealand.

LILLIAN BASSMAN

Lillian Bassman (1917 - 2012) was born in Brooklyn, New York. She worked as a textile designer and fashion illustrator before working at Harper’s Bazaar in 1946. In 1949 she photographed her first Paris couture collection, which lead to her distinguished career photographing the foremost models of her day. Renowned for her innovative work in the darkroom, Ms. Bassman experimented by printing through unique materials, burning in on certain areas, or bleaching sections of the photograph to create images that appeared to be a cross between a watercolor and a photograph. Her photographs have been featured internationally in gallery and museum exhibitions in New York, Milan, Paris, and London and as the focus of magazine articles, lectures, and books highlighting her incredible life and body of work.

RICHARD BENSON

Richard Benson (b. 1943, Newport, RI) has spent his working life as a photographer, printer, and teacher. His current photographic work is in color, printed with an ink-jet printer in multiple impressions. His work is many prominent collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as well as the Yale University Art Gallery. In 2001 he authored A Yale Album (Yale University Press) and in 2008 The Printed Picture (Museum of Modern Art). His work as a photographer and printer has been supported by the Eakins Press Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

EDOUARD BOUBAT

Edouard Boubat was born in Montmartre, Paris in 1923. He studied typography and graphic arts at the Ecole Estienne. Edouard Boubat's interest in photography began after World War II. Public collections that hold his work include Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLOW

Christopher Bucklow, is a British photographer who was born in Manchester, England in 1957. He attended the Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada and was an Artist in Residence at The British Museum, London. Christopher Bucklow’s work is included in the public collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The High Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Christopher Bucklow’s most recent solo exhibitions include Mssohkan Gallery, Kobe, Japan and Artereal, Sydney.

ANDREW BUSH

Andrew Bush graduated from Yale University with an MFA in Photography in 1982. His work has been exhibited extensively in solo and group shows, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts) and Staatliche Kunsthalle (Baden-Baden, Germany). Bush’s work is held in prominent public collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The George Eastman House (Rochester, New York) and The Victoria & Albert Museum (London). The artist currently resides in Los Angeles.

HARRY CALLAHAN

Born in 1912, Harry Callahan grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He studied engineering at Michigan State College. In 1946, he was appointed by László Moholy-Nagy to teach photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Harry Callahan retired in 1977, at which time he was teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design. Harry Callahan's work has been widely collected in such prestigious institutions such as the Corcoran Gallery of Art, George Eastman House, Smithsonian American Art Museum and The High Museum of Art.

CAROLYN CARR

Carolyn Carr received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art (with a focus on Photography). Carolyn Carr is a native Atlantan known for her compelling abstract paintings of interwoven curvilinear lines that are derived from captured graffiti signatures-which is not just nod to form but also acts as signifier for content. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries including Gavlak (New York, Palm Beach), Artists Space (New York), 10 Chancery Lane (Hong Kong), National Museum of Women (Washington D.C.), the Contemporary, David Heath and Fay Gold (Atlanta). Recently she completed a site-specific Flux.org work entitled, Tomorrow is Another Day. In addition to her studio practice Carr is on a number of institutional boards as well as being an activist for local community and political organizations.

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, near Paris, France. Initially a surrealist painter, he put down his brush in exchange for a camera in the 1930s after being inspired by a Martin Munkacsi photograph. Henri Cartier-Bresson's work can be found in many collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and the Musee Carnavalet, Paris.

CHRISTIAN CHAIZE

Christian Chaize, a self-taught artist, lives and works in Lyon, France. In 1992, he was awarded the Prix European Panorama de Kodak for Young European Photographer in Arles, France. In 2004, Chaize became intrigued by a small stretch of coastline in southern Portugal. Itching an artistic scratch, he began shooting what was then an entirely new subject matter for him. Using medium and large format cameras, his commitment to photographing a single beach front several times a year since then is now evident in the series, Praia Piquinia. This work has been the focus of two one-man museum shows in Portugal, as well as gallery exhibitions in New York, Berlin, and Lyon. Among other publications, it has been featured in The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2, BLINK MAGAZINE, Issue No. 13, and Elle Decor.

SIMON CHAPUT

The artist and photographer Simon Chaput was born in France in 1952. He travels extensively and is based in New York City. Private and institutional collections in France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, England, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, Japan and The United States feature his work. Simon Chaput's recent solo exhibitions were Nude Dune at Fifty One Fine Art Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium and Paris Photo at Carrousel du Louvre, Paris. Simon Chaput's work has appeared in Condé Nast Traveler and Daily Telegraph.

WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY

In 1936, William Christenberry was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He attended The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa where he received both his BFA and MFA degrees. The artist is best known for his photography, paintings, drawings and sculptures that depict Southern themes. There have been two main retrospectives featuring William Christenberry's work: one that was organized by the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia, and another traveling exhibition organized by the University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography.

BRUCE DAVIDSON

Bruce Davidson began taking photographs at the age of ten in Oak Park, Illinois. While attending Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University, he continued to further his knowledge and develop his passion. Bruce Davidson’s work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, as well as, The Museum of Contemporary Photography. His most recent exhibition, Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968 was at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

ROBERT DOISNEAU

Robert Doisneau (April 14, 1912 - April 1, 1994) was one of France's most popular and prolific reportage photographers. He studied engraving at the Ecole Estienne in Chantilly. Many of his photos of Paris from the end of World War II through the 1950's have been turned into calendars and postcards and have become icons of French life. Robert Doisneau has been the subject of major retrospectives at the Bibliotecque Nationale in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, George Eastman House and the Witkin Gallery, New York City.

ALFRED EISENSTAEDT

Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898–1995) was a German-American photographer and photojournalist. He is renowned for his candid photographs, frequently made using various models of a 35mm Leica rangefinder camera. He is best known for his photograph capturing the celebration of V-J Day.

MITCH EPSTEIN

Mitch Epstein was Born 1952 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design and the Cooper Union. His photographs are in numerous major museum collections, including New York's Metropolitan Museum, Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Mitch Epstein’s most recent solo exhibitions were Brancolini Grimaldi, Rome, Italy and FOAM – Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam.

ELLIOTT ERWITT

Born on July 26, 1928 in Paris, Elliott Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan. His interest in photography began while he was a teenager living in Hollywood. Elliott Erwitt was invited to join Magnum Photos in 1953 and has been a member of the prestigious agency ever since, serving several terms as its president. Elliott Erwitt has had solo exhibitions in numerous museums and galleries around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Art Institute of Chicago, Zurich's Kunsthaus and Cologne's Photokina.

LALLA ESSAYDI

Moroccan born photographer, Lalla Essaydi incorporates layers of Islamic calligraphy applied by hand with henna, in tandem with poses directly inspired by 19th Century Orientalist painting. Lalla Essaydi attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston where she received a MFA. Collections that have her work include: The Williams College Museum of Art; The Chicago Art Institute; The Kodak Museum; The Fries Museum, The Netherlands; The Museum of Fine Arts Houston; The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California and The Colorado Museum of Art.

WALKER EVANS

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1903, Walker Evans took up photography in 1928. He is best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Walker Evans' work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera. Walker Evans said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent". Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums, and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

JODY FAUSETT

Jody Fausett was born in 1973 in Dawsonville, Georgia. He studied photography at the Art Institute of Atlanta and later moved to New York where he found work in fashion and portrait photography. In 2004, he returned to Georgia to focus on his personal art. His photographs have been in various group shows in New York, Louisiana, Oregon and Washington. He mounted his first solo show at the University of Southern Illinois, Department of Motion Picture and Film in Chicago. In early 2011, the Museum of Modern Art Georgia recognized Fausett as an up-and-coming local talent, and his work was shown in the corresponding Movers & Shakers: MOCA GA Salutes the Rising Stars of the Georgia Arts Scene. His work is on the cover of the literary journal The Chattachoochee Review and Oxford American has picked him for one of the top “New Superstars of Southern Art."

TIERNEY GEARON

Born in Atlanta, GA, Gearon is an acclaimed Los Angeles based contemporary photographer, who gained both critical and commercial recognition for her powerful and intense color photographs. She was thrust into the spotlight in 2001 when her work was featured as one of the main photographers in the famed "I Am A Camera" exhibition at Saatchi Gallery in London. She has been exhibited at many prominent galleries and museums including, The Parrish Art Museum, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, and Phillips de Pury & Company in London. In 2006, she released her critically-acclaimed series The Mother Project along with a film, which was a featured selection at numerous film festivals, including The Tribeca Film Festival. Her most recent project, a 24-page feature of 13 Hollywood heroines, was featured in NY Times Magazine.

LYNN GEESAMAN

Born in Cleveland in 1938, Lynn Geesaman was introduced to photography while studying physics at Wellesley College. An interest in gardens led to research, travel and photography in England, France, Belgium, Italy and Germany. New to Geesaman's work is her use of brilliant color. Through meticulous darkroom printing, we are confronted with glowing yellow trees, glistening orange foliage and soft green waters that challenge our perception of natures' colors. Lynn Geesaman has exhibited widely in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe including Bibliothéque Nationale de France, Paris; The American Cultural Center, Brussels; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. She has received many honors including the Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship and the Arts Midwest/NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship Award.

GEORGE GEORGIOU

George Georgiou (b. 1961) has photographed extensively in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Turkey for the last decade. His photographs focus on transition and identity and how people negotiate the space they find themselves in. He has received several awards including two World Press Photo prizes (2003 & 2005), The British Journal of Photography project prize (2010), Pictures of the Year International first prize for Istanbul Bombs (2004) and has shown at MOMA.

EMMET GOWIN

Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) was born in Danville, Virginia and earned his BFA in Graphic Design from the Richmond Professional Institute and his MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design. While earning his MFA at RISD, he studied with legendary photographer Harry Callahan, who would become one of his mentors. He has received many distinguished awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. His work is included in many museum collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Maison Européene de la Photographie, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Tokyo Museum of Art. Gowin lives and works in Newton, Pennsylvania.

ARTHUR GRACE

JOSEPH GUAY

Joseph Guay was born in Lewiston, Maine in 1971, of French-Canadian descent. This self-taught photographer’s new series of work titled “Memory Portraits” consists of photographic images and video installations of selected peoples’ lives. The photographs are minimalist portraits, but the video installations embedded in the photographs are dynamic collections of memories and reality in which the subjects chose to reveal themselves to the viewer. When the footage is played back, the viewer sees the subject’s actual memories in chronological clips the same way the human mind records and recalls these pieces of reality. His work is included in the Sir Elton John Photography Collection and in the private collection of Evgeny Lebedev.

DAVID HILLIARD

David Hilliard creates large scale multi-paneled photographs, based on his life or the lives of people around him. He received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and MFA from Yale University. David Hilliard work can be found in important collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. David Hilliard exhibits his photographs both nationally and internationally.

SARAH HOBBS

Hobbs constructs psychological space that explores the human psyche. She relishes the idea that we are all beautifully flawed. Hobbs explores human behaviors and compulsions in clinical subjects and believes that tendencies toward one issue or another are present in everyone. The settings are always in actual spaces as opposed to a studio. The domestic setting places the scene in reality while the situation created is an elaborate exaggeration. The space represents a thought process, a feeling, or a subconscious drive. Recently a 2011 Artadia Grant Awardee, Hobbs work is in the collections of: Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Sir Elton John Collection, Knoxville Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston).

JOSEF HOFLEHNER

Josef Hoflehner was born in 1955 in Austria. He has long held a fascination with secluded places and empty spaces and since the early 1990s and has worked in some of the most remote and forbidding areas of the world: Antarctica, Vietnam, China, Japan, the Yemen, and Iceland. His black and white images are seen in dream-time – where everything is slowed down and the landscapes are reduced to elemental and painterly shapes; they are sublime, and quiet - and offer us something not picked up by the naked eye in real-time. The IPA (International Photography Awards) voted Hoflehner Nature Photographer of the Year 2007. His work is included in many private and public collections including Fidelity Investments, AT&T, Polo Ralph Lauren, and Dubai International Financial Centre.

HORST P. HORST

Horst P. Horst was born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann in 1906 in Weissenfels, Germany. His career in photography began after he met photographer George Hoyningen-Huene, and by 1931 he was shooting for French Vogue. Horst P. Horst's work was displayed in museums in New York, London, and Cologne, Ger.

FRANK HORVAT

Frank Horvat was born in 1928 in what was then Italy and is now Croatia. He studied art in Milan and a meeting in 1951 with Henri Cartier-Bresson decided his fate as a photojournalist. Frank Horvat traveled the world in the early 50s and sent his work back to Paris Match, Life and Realities among other magazines. During his long career, Frank Horvat has contributed to every major magazine and his work has been exhibited in Paris, London, Prague, Berlin and New York.

BIRNEY IMES

For more than 20 years Birney Imes roamed the countryside of his native Mississippi photographing the people and places he encountered along the way. Working in both black and white and color, Imes’ photographs take viewers inside juke joints and dilapidated restaurants scattered across that landscape. There he introduces the viewer to, as one writer put it, “the characters and locales that linger in the margins of Southern memory and culture.” Imes’ photographs have been collected in three books: Juke Joint, Whispering Pines and Partial to Home, and have been exhibited in solo shows in the United States and Europe. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, La Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and many public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

MAIRA KALMAN

Born in Tel Aviv, Maira Kalman, is a visual artist whose creativity touches many fields. Known for her whimsical and vibrant graphic style, she attended New York University and is the director of the renowned graphic design firm M & Co, begun with her late husband Tibor Kalman. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NY. Maira Kalman is well known for her many New Yorker Magazine covers as well as her work with writing and illustrating dozens of children’s books.

MICHAEL KENNA

Michael Kenna was born in Widnes, England, in 1953. He attended Upholland College, Lancashire, The Banbury School of Art, Oxfordshire, and The London College of Printing, and has since continued to work as a photographer and artist. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington. Michael Kenna has achieved international recognition for his photographs which have been shown in many exhibitions in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia, and are in such permanent collections as The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; The Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

ANDRE KERTESZ

André Kertesz (2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985), born Kertesz Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and by his efforts in establishing and developing the photo essay. During his photographic career, which spanned for more than 70 years, Andre Kertesz earned numerous awards for his achievements in photography. He was the first photographer ever to have a one-man show and appeared in countless exhibitions around the world.

WILLIAM KLEIN

Born in New York City in 1928, William Klein studied sociology while enrolled at City College of New York. He has had solo and group exhibitions including Prints 1955-2007, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy and Rand Manège, Moscow. Klein’s work is in the collection of The Guggenheim Museum, New York, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

MONA KUHN

Mona Kuhn was born in Brazil in 1969, of German descent. She attended Ohio State University and the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently at the Getty Research Institute in Independent Studies in Arts and Humanities. Mona Kuhn's work is held in collections of Sir Elton John, Allen Thomas Jr., Paul Allen, SFMoMA, Getty Museum, Musee de l'Elysee in Switzerland and Schwarz Fine and Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany. Mona Kuhn’s most recent solo exhibitions include Bordeaux at Jackson Fine Art and Native at Galeria Pilar Serra in Madrid.

JACQUES-HENRI LARTIGUE

Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) was born at Courbevoie, France, and he grew up in Paris. His father, a businessman and passionate amateur photographer, gave him his first camera at the age of seven. He was very quickly attracted by movement and, after mastering the technique, took his first ‘snapshots’ of tennis, swimming, bobsledding and other games. In 1932, attracted by the cinema, Jacques-Henri Lartigue acted as assistant director on the film ‘Le Roi Pausole’ for which he also took the official photographs. Jacques-Henri Lartigue became well known as an illustrator and designer during the years 1935-1950. Mr. Lartigue first became known to the American public through an exhibition of photographs organized by John Szarkowski in 1963 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York who saw Jacques-Henri Lartigue as “the precursor of all that is lively and interesting in the middle of the 20th century.”

ARTHUR LEIPZIG

Acclaimed documentary photographer, Arthur Leipzig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1918. Arthur Leipzig's work is represented in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, The Jewish Museum, and The Bibliothèque Nationale. His solo exhibitions include Arthur Leipzig: a World View at the Howard Greenberg Gallery, Growing Up in New York at the Museum of the City of New York, Jewish Life Around the World at the Nassau County Museum of Fine Art.

SAUL LEITER

Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. After attending the Telshe Yeshiva Rabbinical College in Cleveland, Ohio Leiter moved to New York to pursue painting. His photographic work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, The Victoria and Albert Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Leiter’s most recent exhibitions are Saul Leiter, Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, Saul Leiter, Galleria C arla Sozzani, Milan and Saul Leiter, Howard Greenberg Gallery.

HERMAN LEONARD

Born in Allentown, PA in 1923, Herman chose to attend Ohio University in Athens, the only university at the time to offer a degree in Photography. Herman's jazz photographs, now collector's items, are a unique record of the jazz scene of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Leonard’s work is held in The Smithsonian’s collection, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NY, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, LA, and the George Eastman House, NY, as well as the private collections of Sir Elton John, Bruce Bernard and His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.

HELEN LEVITT

Born in Brooklyn in 1913, Helen Levitt ‘s photographs made on the streets of New York have inspired and amazed generations of photographers, collectors and curators. Helen Levitt's first major museum exhibition was at the Museum of Modern Art in 1943, and a second solo show was held there in 1974. Retrospectives of her work have been held at several museums including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, International Center for Photography and the Centre National la Photographie in Paris.

GREG LOTUS

Greg Lotus photographed the exclusive Paper-Cut-Project collection. The photographs that span his 20-year career draw inspiration from classical paintings, international travels and life experiences. Lotus has developed his own evocative way of using light and shadow, playing with angles and composition to enhance the graphic quality of his images. Renowned for his editorial point of view, Lotus’ work regularly appears in international editions of Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, L'Uomo Vogue, and W magazines. His subjects include international celebrities.

CHRISTOPHER LOWELL

Born and raised in Atlanta, GA Christopher Lowell moved to Los Angeles to study photography at the University of Southern California, and later to New York to continue his studies at the New School. His first solo show was in 2007, entitled, “Rendering the Ordinary Extraordinary” at the Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2008 he worked as a photojournalist for Project Medishare in rural Haiti. This year Lowell co-hosted Photo LA alongside David LaChapelle, and his most recent show, “The Dreamers” opened at the Stephen Cohen Gallery in March. Christopher Lowell’s work is included in both the Sovereign Collection in Atlanta and the Elton John Collection.

DANNY LYON

Danny Lyon was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1942 and studied history at University of Chicago. Lyon has had solo exhibits at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Danny Lyon is the founding member of the photography group Bleak Beauty. Lyon’s work can be found in the collections of the American Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institute, George Eastman House and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

VIVIAN MAIER

Vivian Maier (1926-2009) was born in New York to a French mother, who moved Maier to France as a child. In the 1950s, she began working as a professional nanny for families in Chicago. It was during this time that Maier became a voracious street photographer of Chicago, New York, and while travelling abroad. Remarkably, during her lifetime, she kept her photographs private and showed them to no one. In 2007, the contents of her storage locker, including some 100,000 negatives, were auctioned in Chicago due to delinquent payments. After the discovery of her extensive collection, champions of Maier’s photographs have worked tirelessly to give these images their proper recognition with exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States. Maier has been compared to the greatest street photographers in the canon of art history: Lisette Model, Helen Levitt, Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, and André Kertész.

SALLY MANN

Sally Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia in 1951. Mann received her MA degree in Writing from Hollins College. Her most recent solo exhibitions were Sally Mann, at the Stenersen Museum, Oslo and Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris. She has won numerous awards including three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a Guggenheim fellowship. Sally Mann's photographs are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art.

EDITH MAYBIN

Edith Maybin received a MA from the Swansea Institute of Art, UK and won the title of Free Range 2006 Photographer of the Year. Maybin was selected for the AXA Art Photographic Portrait Commission with the National Museum of Wales. Her work is a part of the permanent collections of The National Museum Wales; The National Portrait Gallery, London; and The Sir Elton John Photography Collection. Edith Maybin’s most recent exhibitions have been at the Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York and Jackson Fine Art.

CHARLIE MCCULLERS

RAY METZKER

Ray Metzker was born in 1931 in Milwaukee and attended the Institute of Design, Chicago. Major American museums began showing his work in the 1960’s. Cementing Metzker's reputation as a master photographer, the Museum of Modern Art gave him his first one-man show in 1967. Retrospectives of his work were shown by the International Museum of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the High Museum of Art.

JOEL MEYEROWITZ

Joel Meyerowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1938. Meyerowitz graduated from Ohio State University and is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. His work can be seen in important collections of The George Eastman House, International Center of Photography, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Whitney Museum of American Art.

JEANNETTE MONTGOMERY BARRON

Jeannette Montgomery Barron was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1956 and studied at the International Center of Photography in New York. Her works are in numerous public and corporate collections, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Kunsthaus Zurich and The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. Jeannette Montgomery Barron's work has been shown internationally at Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Scalo, New York and Zurich, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Magazzino D’Arte Moderna, Rome and ClampArt in New York.

ANDREW MOORE

Andrew Moore was born 1957 in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. He is best known for his richly colored images of architectural and urban scenes particularly in Cuba, Russia, and Detroit. He teaches in the Photography M.F.A. program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His work is represented in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Israel Museum, the High Museum, the Eastman House and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Moore has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The New York State Council on the Arts, and several private foundations.

ABELARDO MORELL

Abelardo Morell (born Havana, Cuba, 1948) is a Boston-based photographer. Morell and his family fled Cuba in 1962, moving to New York City. Morell earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Bowdoin College in 1977, and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University School of Art in 1981. He is well known in the photographic community for creating camera obscura images in various places around the world and photographing them. Morell was awarded the Cintas Foundation fellowship in 1992 and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1993.

TODD MURPHY

Todd Murphy (b. 1962) was born in Chicago and moved to Georgia as a child. After studying art at the University of Georgia, he began his acclaimed artistic career in Atlanta. He is best known for his breath-taking large format paintings and sculptural installations. In addition to being a visiting artist and lecturer at several universities, he has curated major corporate and institutional projects. His work is included in many private collections including Jon Bon Jovi, Uma Thurman, and the Sir Elton John collection as well as several museum collections such as The High Museum of Art, The New Orleans Museum, and The Tampa Museum of Art to name a few. Murphy currently resides with his family in Brooklyn, New York.

LYLE OWERKO

A renowned New York City-based photographer, filmmaker and self-professed “pop-culture junkie,” Owerko’s editorial and fine art projects regularly take the globe-trotting artist to Africa, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Mongolia and Central America. His heart-wrenching editorial photograph of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center appeared on the cover of Time magazine and was called one of the 40 most important magazine covers in the last 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Editors. His film credits include music videos for Rufus Wainwright and American Hi-Fi and commercial spots with Robert Redford for The Sundance Channel. His work has been featured in Communication Arts magazine, The New York Times, The Village Voice, New York magazine, BlackBook and on NPR. His journals have been included alongside those of director Mike Figgis and musician David Byrne in the 2005 Princeton Architectural Press book Drawing From Life.

GORDON PARKS

American, 1912 - 2006. Gordon Parks was one of the seminal figures of twentieth century photography. A humanitarian with a deep commitment to social justice, he left behind a body of work that documents many of the most important aspects of American culture from the early 1940s up until his death in 2006, with a focus on race relations, poverty, Civil Rights, and urban life. In addition, Parks was also a celebrated composer, author, and filmmaker who interacted with many of the most prominent people of his era—from politicians and artists to celebrities and athletes.

SCOTT PETERMAN

Scott Peterman was born in Pennsylvania in 1968. He received his Master of Fine Arts from The Yale University School of Art. Peterman’s first monograph, was published by Channel Photographics, and was named one of the best 25 photo books of 2006 by Photo District News. Scott Peterman's work has appeared in many publications, including Forbes, Fortune, the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Men’s Journal, and Harper’s. Peterman's work is in the collection of Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris, France and the Sir Elton John Collection.

ED PFIZENMAIER

Ed Pfizenmaier was born in 1926 and resides in New York. He was a photographic assistant at Vogue Studios during the 1940s and 1950s where he worked with Horst, Beaton and Penn on fashion and celebrity shoots. He has photographed Dali, Andy Warhol, George Balanchine and Marilyn Monroe.

MATTHEW PILLSBURY

Matthew Pillsbury was born in Neuilly, France in 1973. After receiving a MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York; Matthew Pillsbury focuses on creating large black-and-white photographs using an 8×10 camera. He takes long exposures, often an hour or two, of people working with computers, using handheld electronic devices or watching television. Matthew Pillsbury’s photos are among the collections of renowned museums, including the Guggenheim and the Tate Modern. In 2007, Mr. Pillsbury won the prestigious Fondation HSBC pour la Photographie award for the visual acuity of his work.

WILLY RONIS

Willy Ronis was born in Paris in 1910 and became a full-time photographer in 1945. He joined Doisneau, Brassaï and others at the Rapho Agency in Paris and sought to bring a lyrical touch to the most ordinary moments of everyday life. Ronis became the first French photographer to work for LIFE Magazine. Curator Edward Steichen exhibited him at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953 in a show called Four French Photographers. Willy Ronis was also part of the famed Family of Man exhibit at Museum of Modern Art in 1955.

STEVE SCHAPIRO

Born and raised in New York City, Steve Schapiro attended Amherst College and graduated from Bard College. Schapiro’s photographs were included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 1968 exhibition “Harlem On My Mind”. His work can be found in the collection of the Smithsonian, The High Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. Steve Schapiro's recent solo shows were in Los Angeles, Amsterdam, London and Paris.

TODD SELBY

Todd Selby is a portrait, interiors, and fashion photographer and illustrator. His project The Selby offers an insider’s view of creative individuals in their personal spaces with an artist's eye for detail. The Selby began in June 2008 as a website, www.theselby.com, where Todd posted photo shoots he did of his friends in their homes. Requests quickly began coming in daily from viewers all over the world who wanted their homes to be featured on the site. These joint projects have included a large ad campaign and web project with Nike 6.0, a solo show at Colette, an international ad campaign for Habitat, work for the New York Times T Magazine, and frequent contributions to Vogue Paris and Architectural Digest France. Todd’s first book, The Selby is In Your Place, was released in May 2010 by Abrams.

MASATO SETO

Masato Seto was born in Udon Thani, Thailand, to a Japanese father and a Thai mother of Vietnamese decent. He moved to Fukushimi Prefecture, Japan in 1961, and studied photography at Tokyo Shashin Senmon Gakko, graduating in 1972. In 1981 Seto became a freelance photographer. Masato Seto has since had three books published for his series' Living Room, Picnic and Binran. Seto’s work is included in many international collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, Japan; Kawasaki City Museum in Kanagawa, Japan; Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California; and The Sir Elton John Collection, USA.

CHIP SIMONE

Chip Simone has been making photographs for more than four decades. He was educated in the history and traditions of creative photography at the Rhode Island School of Design (1964-67) where he studied with renowned photographer Harry Callahan. He first exhibited his work in 1966. In 1980 his work was exhibited at the Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, NY. In 1982 he received a Photographer’s Fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts. His prints are included in major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, The High Museum of Art, The Houston Museum of Fine Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Sir Elton John Photography Collection. Chip has lived in Atlanta since 1972. Sixty-four of Chip Simone’s color images are currently on display at The High Museum of Art in a major exhibition entitled The Resonant Image.

MIKE SMITH

Mike Smith photographs the rural American Southeast in large-format color photography, exposing the unique beauty of the region and the people who call it home. Born in Germany, Smith received his B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art and his M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art. His photography is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Art Institute of Chicago.

VEE SPEERS

Vee Speers was born in Australia and has lived in Paris since 1990. Her timeless portraits have been exhibited and published world-wide and are part of many private and museum collections including the Elton John Collection, Michael Wilson Collection, DZ Bank, Museum 21C Kentucky, George Eastman House, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Clerici Collection Italy. Speers monograph Bordello with a foreword by Karl Lagerfeld is available world-wide, and her second book The Birthday Party was released in October 2008 by Dewi Lewis, UK.

JACK SPENCER

In Jack Spencer's first body of work, Native Soil, he traveled across the southern U.S. Since then he has traveled the country and into Mexico, always allowing life to lead him to his next series. Working in St. Augustine, Florida, a pastel palette makes his new photographs feel similar to watercolor paintings. Jack Spencer was born in Mississippi and currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee. Jack is a self-taught photographer who attended Louisiana Tech University. His work is in many collections including: The Houston Museum of Fine Art, Berkley Museum of Art, and Sir Elton John’s Photography Collection and he is represented by leading contemporary photography galleries throughout the United States. LSU Press published his book, Native Soil, in 1999.

MARK STEINMETZ

Mark Steinmetz received his MFA from Yale University in 1986. He has been published in Aperture, Blind Spot, and DoubleTake magazines and is a Guggenheim fellow. Steinmetz' work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His publications include South Central 2007, South East 2008, Greater Atlanta 2009.

DAVID STEPHENSON

David Stephenson was born in 1955 and received a MFA at the University of New Mexico. Stephenson has had solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. His work is represented in collections including, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the National Gallery of Australia, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the George Eastman House, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.

LOUIS STETTNER

Louis Stettner (b. 1922) was born and grew up in Brooklyn. He began taking photographs around the age of 12 or 13. As a teenager, Stettner was encouraged by Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand to continue photography, and later became friends with Strand around 1950. Stettner describes himself as a largely self-taught photographer, but pays full credit to the influence of the Photo League on his work. Stettner continued to photograph into the 90s, never straying from working in a tradition of ‘Humanist Realism’, which he saw as the central concern of photography. His photographs are now in such permanent collections as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

JOSEPH SZABO

Joe Szabo is a teacher, photographer and author who began his photographic studies at Pratt Institute where he received an MFA degree in 1968. He taught photography at Malverne High School in Long Island from 1972-1999 and at the International Center of Photography in New York since 1978. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennial, the International Center of Photography, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Brooklyn Museum among others. Szabo’s work is in the collection of many prestigious institutions including the Bibliotheque National in Paris, France, The George Eastman House Museum in Rochester, New York, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Szabo’s photographs have been published in numerous magazines and newspapers such as the New York Times, Vogue Hommes International, New York Magazine, Newsday, New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times and many more.

RON VAN DONGEN

Ron van Dongen was born in Judibana, Venezuela and attended the Academy of Art College, San Francisco. His work is in distinguished public and private collections of Microsoft, Portland Art Museum, Elton John Photography Collection and the Ritz Carlton, Sante Fe. Perhaps the most recognized and widely collected photographer of botanical studies, van Dongen’s work has been the subject of ten monographs and is widely exhibited and collected throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.

MASSIMO VITALI

Massimo Vitali was born in Italy in 1944. In 1964, he graduated from The London School of Printing with a degree in photography. Vitali worked as a photojournalist and a cinematographer. Beginning to work with large-format photography in the early 1990s, he began his beach series in 1995. Massimo Vitali's work can be found in the collections of the Guggenheim in New York, the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain, and the Elton John Collection.

    

ANGELA WEST

Angela West grew up in Dahlonega, Georgia, and received her MFA in photography from Yale University. Much of Angela’s work is a series of varied photographic projects relating to her hometown and the chronology of its inhabitants. Employing the traditional academic genres of art to explore the nature and place of community, Angela’s projects include portrait studies of small-town teenage girls, landscape explorations of neighborhoods, and still lifes that represent the passing of time. Her richly realized color photographs balance affection for her subjects with precise and unsentimental observation. Ms. West’s work is included in the collections of the High Museum of Art, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art and The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. Ms. West was the recipient of a 2009 Artadia Award

MASAO YAMAMOTO

Born in 1957 in Gamagori City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, Masao Yamamoto's work is exhibited and included in many public and private collections nationally and internationally including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; The International Center of Photography, New York, NY and the Sir Elton John Collection. His most recent exhibitions include Yamamoto Masao, la-condition-japonaise Berlin, Germany and Kawa=Flow at Jackson Fine Art.

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