Art Kane (1925 - 1995) was one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. A bold visionary, Kane’s work encompassed fashion, editorial, celebrity portraiture, travel, and nudes with a relentless and innovative eye. Like his contemporaries, Guy Bourdin (1928 - 1991) and Helmut Newton (1924 - 2004), Kane...
Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places: The Complete Works
Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shore’s legendary Uncommon Places has influenced a generation of photographers. Among the first artists to take color beyond the domain of advertising and fashion photography, Shore’s large-format color work on the American vernacular landscape stands at the root of what has become a vital photographic...
PhotoBiography: Martina Lindqvist
Martina Lindqvist (born Finland 1981) studied Photography at Hull College followed by Photographic Arts at The University of Westminster, London, UK. Her inspiration is drawn from childhood memories of places where she grew up and visited as a child in Finland. Lindqvist's unsettlingly still landscapes have the quality of an...
Jenny Riffle: Scavenger
“There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.” -Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Riley grew up in rural eastern Washington. As a child he read Mark Twain’s stories of Tom Sawyer and...
Lori Nix: The Power of Nature
Visions of the future, horror scenarios or purely idyllic scenes? The photographic works by the New York artist Lori Nix show a world without people – a world reclaimed and ruled by Nature. Lori Nix (born 1969) is a storyteller par excellence. In her photographs she whisks the viewer off...
Interview with photographer Jaime Travezan
- How did you get into photography? While studying architecture in the 80's in my hometown, Lima, I got a job as a journalist for a local newspaper. Many of the articles had to be documented with photographs, this made me take a camera and start to do my first...
Historic photos of China (1889-1891)
In the 19th century, the great Chinese Diaspora began. Losses due to emigration were added to by conflicts and catastrophes such as the Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–79, in which between 9 and 13 million people died. In 1898, the Guangxu Emperor drafted a reform plan to establish a modern...
PhotoBiography: Olaf Otto Becker
Olaf Otto Becker (born 1959) follows in the tradition of Herbert Ponting and William Bradford, early photographers who travelled to the Polar Regions to photograph these dramatic and unexplored landscapes. Like his predecessors, Becker aims to find a balance between both the artistic and the scientific in his photography. Olaf...
Blake Little: Preservation
Preservation has many meanings, from the physical to the spiritual. At the most basic – and perhaps the most important – level it can denote survival. Hence the idea of protection, inherent in the term. But while the word often implies a kind of stability, or even stasis, preservation also...
Anastasia Tsayder: 1980 Moscow Olympics
The series looks at the heritage of Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics. The 1980 games became the last bright all nation event to happen in the USSR, the last big start meant to prove the superiority of Socialist regime and ideas of Communism over Capitalism. Olympic buildings, mostly designed in 1975-1978,...