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Master Photographers
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| Eugene Atget (1857-1927) |
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Eugene Atget photographed Paris for thirty years with a singleness of purpose rarely excelled, he made his incredible monument to a city. |
| Bill Brandt (1904-1983) |
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A major exhibition celeblating the centenary of the birth of Bill Brandt(1904-83), Britain's best-loved photographer of modern times. |
| Brassai (1899-1984) |
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Brassai is regarded as the photographer whose pictures form the basis upon which many non-Parisians' ideas about Paris are formed. |
| Walker Evans (1903-1975) |
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In depth commentary on Evans' influence in documentary photography. Picture of Walker using an 8x10 camera from a rooftop. |
| Robert Frank (1924- ) |
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Frank's work had become dry, lean, and transparent. He had forged a new style: a weapon that was as clean and functional and American as a double-bitted ax. |
| Andre Kertesz (1894-1985) |
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Born in Hungary in 1894, Andre Kertsz moved to Paris in 1925, where he spent 11 years living and working, enjoying his quick and deserved success. In 1936 he moved to New York. Kertsz enjoyed numerous honours including, an important retrospective in 1981 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Art Institute in Chicago. |
| Edward Weston (1886-1958) |
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Official website of the Weston family. Rare prints from the Weston family archives and contemporary Weston color photos. |
| Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) |
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Garry Winogrand is famous for pictures he never even developed. When Winogrand died in 1984, he left more than 2500 rolls of film exposed but undeveloped, 6500 rolls developed but not proofed, and 3000 rolls proofed but not examined. That's a total of a third of a million unedited exposures. |
| Diane Arbus (1923-1971) |
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Photographs, a biography, and a timeline. |
| Lee Friedlander (1937- ) |
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Exhibition of recent work in which Friedlander photographs himself, his wife, grandchildren and other family members, mainly at close range with a Hassleblad SWC. |
| Helen Levitt (1913- ) |
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Helen Levitt's work consists primarily of dynamic and lyrical photographs of the spontaneous social life of New York City streets. |
| Josef Koudelka (1939- ) |
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A member of magnumphotos, one of the most successful fine art photographer in a group. Gypsies, Exils, etc. |
| Bellocq (1873-1949) |
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Features an article about the photographer and example of his work. |
| Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) |
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Born in Chanteloup, Cartier-Bresson started painting in 1923 and began to photograph in 1931, met Teriade, the editor of Verve magazine and frequented members of the French surrealist movement. After a trip to the Ivory Coast he discovered the Leica, since then his camera of choice. |
| Lewis Hine (1874-1940) |
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Lewis Hine was commissioned to photograph the construction of the building in 1930. This page of the New York Public Library presents a selection of the resulting photographs. |
| Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) |
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British Photographer. She was interested in capturing another kind of photographic truth. Not one dependent on accuracy of sharp detail, but one that depicted the emotional state of her sitter. |
| Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) |
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On June 15, 1878, a clear and sunny day in Palo Alto, California, amid a gathering of art and sports journalists, Eadweard Muybridge photographed the first successful serial images of fast motion. |
| Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) |
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the Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue, which conserves and manages the Lartigue collection, under the supervision of the French Ministry of Culture. |
| Irving Penn (1917- ) |
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Exhibitions by the artist Irving Penn American born in galleries worldwide. |
| Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) |
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Hers is a social history: the seeing of those least able to have a voice during the pivotal years of the Great Depression and World War II. |
| Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) |
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One of this century's greatest photographers, and her New York City images have come to define 1930's New York, notes, biography, and photography collection from the New York Public Library. |
| Curtis, Edward S. (1868-1952) |
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A detailed biography and vintage photogravures and photographs from the North American Indian Project. |
| Andreev, Nikolai (1882-1947) |
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Russian master of pictorial photography. Scans from the original images. |
