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Bryan Formhals
Bryan Formhals (born October 18, 1976) is an American photographer and editor, based in New York City. He co-edited the book ''Photographers' Sketchbooks'' (2014). Life and work Formhals was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota. He earned a degree in communication and journalism at nearby Saint John's University, Collegeville in 1999. He moved to Minneapolis and got a job working for a web company, transferring west to Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California in 2004. In LA he took a class at The Second City doing improvisational comedy and wrote a screenplay. In 2005, unhappy with his screenplay and experiencing writer's block, he began taking photographs while walking around Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles. This resulted in the series ''Genesee Ave.'' In 2009 he moved east to New York City, first to Greenpoint, Brooklyn and then in 2012 to Astoria, Queens. In 2010 ''Wired'' highlighted Formhals as one of its "Favorite Photobloggers" for his blog ''La Pura Vida.'' He founded and wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Of Saint Benedict And Saint John's University
The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University are two closely related private, Catholic higher education institutions in Minnesota. The College of Saint Benedict is a women's college located in St. Joseph, while Saint John's University is a men's college in Collegeville. Students at the institutions, both of which are Benedictine, have a shared curriculum and access to the resources of both campuses. History College of Saint Benedict The College of St. Benedict is a four-year undergraduate institution. The college opened in 1913, with six students enrolled, and grew out of St. Benedict's Academy, which was founded by Saint Benedict's Monastery in 1889. The Benedictine community incorporated CSB in 1961. Saint John's University Saint John's University was founded in 1857 by the Benedictine monks of Saint John's Abbey, having emigrated from Bavaria, Germany, under the patronage of King Ludwig II. In addition to its undergraduate offerings, SJU includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalik Allah
Khalik Allah (born 1985) is an American filmmaker and photographer. His 2015 documentary film ''Field Niggas'' and his 2017 book ''Souls Against the Concrete'' depict people who inhabit the notorious Harlem corner of 125th Street (Manhattan), 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City. His film ''Black Mother'' (2018) depicts people on the island of Jamaica. "He favours visual portraits of people on the street – filming their faces for several seconds as they pose as if for a still camera." Khalik lives in Long Island and is a Nominee member of Magnum Photos. Life and work Khalik was born in Brookhaven, New York. His mother is Jamaican and his father is Iranian. He grew up in Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk, Long Island, New York, but moved between Queens and Harlem throughout his childhood. His parents met at university in Bristol, Bristol, England. He is a dual Jamaican-American citizen. He started making movies at age 19 with a 8 mm video format, Hi-8 video camera. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shutterstock
Shutterstock is an American provider of stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools; it is headquartered in New York. Founded in 2003 by programmer and photographer Jon Oringer, Shutterstock maintains a library of around 200 million royalty-free stock photos, vector graphics, and illustrations, with around 10 million video clips and music tracks available for licensing. Originally a subscription site only, Shutterstock expanded beyond subscriptions into a la carte pricing in 2008. It has been publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange since 2012. History Founding and early years (2003–2011) Shutterstock was founded in 2003 by American entrepreneur and computer programmer Jon Oringer. Creating his own online marketplace, Oringer initially uploaded 30,000 of his own stock photos and made them available via subscription, with unlimited downloads and a monthly starting fee of US$49. When demand exceeded his photo supply, he began hiring additional co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B&H Photo
B&H Photo Video (also known as B&H Photo and B&H and B&H Foto & Electronics Corporation) is an American photo and video equipment retailer founded in 1973, based in Manhattan, New York City. B&H conducts business primarily through online e-commerce consumer sales and business to business sales, as they only have one retail location. Ownership and clientele B&H Photo Video targets professional photographers and videographers. It operates a warehouse located in Florence, New Jersey. The owner of the company, Herman Schreiber, and many of the store's employees are observant Satmar Hasidic Jews. The company’s brick-and-mortar store in Manhattan is closed on Shabbat, most Jewish holidays, and Christmas. Although the B&H Web site is accessible on Shabbat, checkout and processing of online orders are unavailable during Shabbat (from sundown Friday evening till Saturday evening) and Jewish holidays according to local (New York) time. History B&H opened in 1973 as a storefron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was published on Saturday 26 March 2016, leaving only the online edition. The newspaper was controlled by Tony O'Reilly's Irish Independent News & Media from 1997 until it was sold to the Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer Alexander Lebedev in 2010. In 2017, Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel bought a 30% stake in it. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. The website and mobile app had a combined monthly reach of 19,826,000 in 2021. History 1986 to 1990 Launched in 1986, the first issue of ''The Independent'' was published on 7 October in broadsheet format.Dennis Griffiths (ed.) ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992'', London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p. 330 It was produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen McLaren (photographer)
Stephen McLaren is a Scottish photographer, writer, and curator, based in Los Angeles. He has edited various photography books published by Thames & Hudson—including ''Street Photography Now'' (2010)—and produced his own, ''The Crash'' (2018). He is a co-founder member of Document Scotland. McLaren's work has been shown at FACT in Liverpool as part of the Look – Liverpool International Photography Festival and in Document Scotland group exhibitions at Impressions Gallery, Bradford and at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. His work is held in the collection of the University of St Andrews. Career McLaren made television documentaries in Scotland and then in London, before moving to the USA and working as a photographer. In 2013 he was living in San Francisco and is now based in Los Angeles. Matt McCann wrote in ''The New York Times'' that McLaren's street photography "feels like a field guide to how normal things can be really odd, contradictory — and visua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Sussman
Rachel Sussman (born 1975) is an American contemporary artist and photographer based in Brooklyn. Biography Born into a non-religious Jewish family, Sussman started photographing when she was about 10 years old. In a lecture given in 2019 at the Center for the Study of World Religions of Harvard Divinity School, she explained: "I grew up in a pretty abusive family, pretty rough childhood. And nature was one of the first things that I really connected with. It really without knowing it became a guiding force for me". She graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York with a BFA, studied at the Bard College MFA program, and began a practice-based fine arts PhD at Central Saint Martins in London. Sussman is a Guggenheim and MacDowell Colony Fellow, spoke about her work at the TEDGlobal conference in 2010, and was a 2016 TED Resident. Sussman's interdisciplinary project "The Oldest Living Things in the World," has been featured in the media all over the world, including the New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Schles
Ken Schles (born 1960) is an American photographer based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York. He has published five monographs over 25 years. Schles' work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and others. Career Schles earned his BFA from Cooper Union in 1982. After continuing his studies at the New School for Social Research, he worked as a printer for a number of Magnum Photos photographers. Schles is a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. Schles began producing ''Invisible City'' (1988) in 1983, when he lived in a run-down apartment in the east village of New York City. City officials made the landlord turn off the boiler in the building because it was leaking carbon monoxide, the building had become a "shooting gallery" for heroin addicts. The neighborhood was in shambles and junkies were a constant threat. So, Schles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus Powell
Gus Powell (1974) is an American street photographer. He was a member of the In-Public street photography collective. Powell has published two of his own photography books: ''The Company of Strangers'' (2003) and ''The Lonely Ones'' (2015), the latter with work spanning a decade. He has had a solo exhibition at Museum of the City of New York and his work is held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. In 2003 Photo District News considered Powell one of their 30 emerging photographers to watch, and in 2013 he won an award in the National Magazine Awards. Life and work Powell was born in New York City in 1974. He became a member of the In-Public street photography collective in 2003. His photographs are regularly published in ''The New Yorker.'' Publications Publications by Powell *''The Company of Strangers.'' Atlanta and New York: J&L, 2003. *''The Lonely Ones.'' Atlanta and New York: J&L, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elle Pérez
Elle Pérez (born 1989, Bronx, NY) is an American photographer whose work explores gender identity, intimacy, vulnerability, and the relationship between seeing and love. Pérez is a gender non-conforming trans artist. In 2019, Pérez was featured in Cultured Magazine's ''30 Under 35'' and in Forbes Magazine's ''30 Under 30''. They are currently an Assistant Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. They were formerly a visiting professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, Williams College and Cooper Union, a critic at the Yale School of Art, and a dean at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Pérez is represented by 47 Canal and currently lives and works in New York City. Pérez's work was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Early life and education Pérez is of Puerto Rican descent and grew up in The Bronx. In 2002, at the age of twelve, Pérez began photographing the Bronx punk community that they were a part of, creating an archive of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Miller (photographer)
Greg Miller (born 1967) is an American photographer based in Connecticut. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008. He is known for his use of a large format camera. Biography Miller was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1967. He started his commercial photography career in 1988. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1990 with a bachelor of fine arts degree in photography. His projects include photographs of county fairs, marching band camps, Ash Wednesday rites of New Yorkers in Midtown Manhattan and school children waiting for the morning bus in Connecticut. He is a teacher of photography in the International Center of Photography in New York City. Miller lives in Connecticut with his wife and daughters. Awards *2008: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922. The organization awards Guggen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas (born June 21, 1948) is an American documentary photographer. She has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1976 and been a full member since 1980. Currently she is the President of the Magnum Foundation. She is best known for her 1970s photographs of war-torn Nicaragua and American carnival strippers.Photographer Susan Meiselas on documenting women’s refuges . Rachel Cooke, The Observer, 21 My 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2017 Meiselas has published several books of her own photographs and has edited and contributed to others. Her works have been published in newspapers and magazines including '' |
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