Category: Inspiration
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Paul Graham
Paul Graham website Paul Graham archive Great North Road Great North Road Vimeo Paul Graham (UK, 1956) belongs to that generation of photographers who were amongst the last to engage with the medium before it became part of the broader contemporary art world. At the beginning of the 1980’s Graham was among the first photographers…
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Robert Frank
Robert Frank The Americans Robert Frank (born 1924), along with Diane Arbus and others, was one of the founder members of the New York School of photographers in the 1940s and 50s. The Americans, by Robert Frank, was a highly influential book in post-war American photography. With the aid of his major artistic influence, the photographer Walker Evans, Frank secured a Guggenheim…
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Walker Evans
American Photographs (1938) by Walker Evans (1903–75) Other Google images From Wikipedia Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans’s work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8×10-inch…
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Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander (born July 14, 1934) is an American photographer and artist. Friedlander studied photography at the Art Center College of Design located in Pasadena, California. In 1956, he moved to New York City where he photographed jazzmusicians for record covers. In 1960, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded Friedlander a grant to focus on his art and made subsequent grants in 1962 and 1977. 1960s and 70s: black…
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Timothy O’Sullivan
Timothy H. O’Sullivan (c. 1840 – 1882) was a photographer widely known for his work related to the American Civil War and the Western United States. Source: Based on Wikipedia Google Images American Civil War O’Sullivan was born in Ireland and came to New York City two years later with his parents. As a teenager,…
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Francis Frith
Francis Frith postcards website edited from Wikipedia article Francis Frith Images Francis Frith (1822 –1898) was an English photographer of the Middle East and many towns in the United Kingdom. Frith was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. In 1850 he started a photographic studio in Liverpool, known as Frith & Hayward. A successful grocer, and later, printer, Frith…
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John Thomson
edited from Wikipedia article Google images John Thomson (14 June 1837 – 29 September 1921) was a pioneering Scottish photographer, geographer and traveller. He was an accomplished photographer in many areas: landscapes, portraiture, street-photography, architectural photography. He was one of the first photographers to travel to the Far East, documenting the people, landscapes and artifacts of eastern cultures…
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Illka Halso
‘I plan and visually construct buildings, which will protect nature from threats of pollution and what is more important, from actions of man. . . . When putting nature into a museum, you have to take under consideration the aspect of the audience/consumer. Nature becomes a joyride for tourists or a beautiful landscape turns into…
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Paul Shambroom
website Shambroom is conducting a long-term investigation of power. This started with series on nuclear weapons, factories and corporate offices. He then focused on homeland security training and preparation. His images are influenced by painting traditions, including Dutch landscape painting. Meetings Series These photographs emphasize the theatrical aspects of meetings: There is a “cast”, a…
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Willie Doherty
Willie Doherty (born 1959) is an artist from Northern Ireland, who has mainly worked in photography and video. His website images Doherty was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, and from 1978 to 1981 studied at Ulster Polytechnic in Belfast. Many of his works deal with The Troubles. As a child he witnessed Bloody Sunday in…