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W. M. Hunt
W.M. Hunt is a photography collector, curator and consultant who lives and works in New York. Career Collection Hunt has been collecting photographs since the 1960s. In October 2020, a group of over 100 "anti-portraits," collected by Hunt for over 40 years, were available for sale at Christies. Notable photographers included in this collection are Robert Mapplethorpe, Weegee, Irving Penn, Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, John Guttman, Richard Avedon, Albert Renger Patzch, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Sally Mann, Erwin Blumenfeld, and many others. Books His book ''The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious'' was published in 2011 by Aperture (US) and Thames & Hudson (UK) and by Actes Sud as "L'Oeil Invisible" in France. It focuses on his "Collection Dancing Bear." "Hunt's Three Ring Circus: American Groups before 1950," "Huddled Masses" and "Troop/Troupe" were published by Dancing Bear Books in 2014 and 2018 respectively. He collaborated on "two narcissists walk into a bar" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photography
Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed in many fields of science, manufacturing (e.g., photolithography), and business, as well as its more direct uses for art, film and video production, recreational purposes, hobby, and mass communication. Typically, a lens is used to focus the light reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed exposure. With an electronic image sensor, this produces an electrical charge at each pixel, which is electronically processed and stored in a digital image file for subsequent display or processing. The result with photographic emulsion is an invisible latent image, which is later chemically "developed" into a visible image, either negative or positive, depending on the purp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson (sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books in all visually creative categories: art, architecture, design, photography, fashion, film, and the performing arts. It also publishes books on archaeology, history, and popular culture. Headquartered in London, it has a sister company in New York City, and subsidiaries in Melbourne, Singapore, and Hong Kong. In Paris it has a sister company, Éditions Thames & Hudson, and a subsidiary called Interart which distributes English-language books. The Thames & Hudson group currently employs approximately 150 staff in London and approximately 65 more around the world. The publishing company was founded in 1949 by Walter and Eva Neurath, who aimed to make the world of art and the research of top scholars available to a wider public. The company's name reflects its international presence, particularly in London and New York. It remains an independent, family-owned company, and is one of the largest publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photo District News
''Photo District News'' (or ''PDN'') was an American monthly trade publication for professional photographers. ''PDN'' was first published in 1980. The publication took its name from New York City's photo district, an area of photo businesses that was once located in Flatiron District. Its closure was announced on 28 January 2020. ''Time'' has described PDN's annual list of "30 New and Emerging Photographers" as "the go-to outlet to discover up-and-coming photographers, determined on the basis of creativity, versatility and distinctive vision", and as "a career turning point" for those included on the list.How PDN’s 30 Influenced Photographers Over the Years by Ye Ming, at ''Time''; 5 June 2015; Retrieved 21 June 2015 History Originally named '' ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Ventura
Paolo Ventura (born 1968, Milan, Italy) is an Italian photographer, artist and set designer based in Milan. Life and work Ventura grew up in Milan with summers spent in the hilltops of Eastern Tuscany. His father, Piero Ventura, was a children's book author during the 1970s and 1980s. At the end of the 1980s, Ventura attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. At the beginning of the 1990s he started working as a fashion photographer. In a few years he was working with fashion magazines such as Elle, MarieClaire, Amica, Vogue Gioiello, among others. Toward the end of the 1990s, ten years into his career, Ventura gradually stepped out of the world of fashion photography and he moved to New York to pursue his personal artistic path. In his studio in Brooklyn he began to build and photograph small dioramas about World War II in Italy, based on memories and tales from his grandmother. In 2006 Contrasto published “War Souvenirs", a collection of this work, with a foreword by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Smith (artist)
Mickey Smith (born 1972 in Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.) is an American photographer, conceptual artist, and jewellery designer working in Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count .... Her works have exhibited throughout the United States, in Europe, China, Oceania, and Russia. She has received a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Photography as well as grants from Forecast Public Art, CEC ArtsLink, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. In 2018, Te Tuhi published her book ''As You Will... Carnegie Libraries of the South Pacific'', a documentary project focused on the 25 Carnegie libraries erected in New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji. Her first artist's book, Denudation, published by Hassla, was included in the photobook installation, A Different Kind of Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Sheng
Jeff Sheng (born California) is an American artist and photographer. He was a visiting guest professor of photography at Harvard University in 2011. He taught as a visiting assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara for the departments of Studio Art and Asian American studies between 2007 and 2012. He is a recipient of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Sheng's photography work has been described as "historic" in capturing the social progress experienced by the LGBT community in the United States in the early 21st century. His 2009-2011 photography series "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" documented almost 100 closeted LGBT United States military service members affected by the Don't ask, don't tell policy, that forbid United States military service members from openly identifying as gay or lesbian. Sheng's photographs of these closeted service members were widely published and reported on by the media during the Congressional repeal of the polic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erwin Olaf
Erwin Olaf Springveld (born 2 July 1959), professionally known as Erwin Olaf, is a Dutch photographer from Hilversum. Time magazine described his work as straddling "the worlds of commercial, art and fashion photography at once." Biography Erwin Olaf Springveld was born on 2 July 1959 in Hilversum, Netherlands. Olaf is most famous for his commercial and personal work. He has been commissioned to photograph advertising campaigns for large international companies such as Levi's, Microsoft and Nokia. Some of his most famous photographic series include "Grief", "Rain", and "Royal Blood". Never one to shy away from controversy, Olaf's work is often daring and provocative. Humorously however, one of his early photographs was once expelled from a show on the basis of ''not'' containing nudity. His work has received many awards and he has held exhibitions around the world. Olaf studied journalism in the School of Journalism in Utrecht. His work is shown in galleries and museums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Hoflehner
Josef Hoflehner (born 1955) is an Austrian photographer known for his dramatic black-and-white landscape and subtle color images. He is also known for his "Jet Airliner" series—mostly high-key photographs of people on Maho Beach on the Caribbean island of St. Maarten Sint Maarten () is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. With a population of 41,486 as of January 2019 on an area of , it encompasses the southern 44% of the divided island of Saint Martin, while the north ..., overshadowed by low-flying passenger planes taking off and landing at Princess Juliana International Airport. He was voted Nature Photographer of the Year 2007, and named as one of "Austria's 10 Best Contemporary Artists" in 2014. Photobooks * ''Southern Ocean'' (2002) * ''Frozen History'' (2003) * ''Gegendum'' (2004) * ''Unleashed'' (2005) * ''Yemen'' (2006) * ''Iceland'' (2006) * ''Unleashed Two'' (2007) * ''Big Island'' (2008) * ''Li River'' (2008) * ''Nine 9' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Haviv
Ron Haviv (born 1965) is an American photojournalist who covers conflicts. He is the author of several photographic publications, is a co-founder of VII Photo Agency, lectures at universities and conducts workshops. Biography Ron Haviv was a student and graduate of Northern Valley Demarest High School in 1983, and later went on to graduate from New York University. Since the end of the Cold War he has covered conflict and other humanitarian crises worldwide. Haviv is known for his broad documentation of the Yugoslav Wars: the battle of Vukovar in Croatia, the Siege of Sarajevo, the atrocities committed at Serb concentration camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the practice of ethnic cleansing as exhibited by Arkan's Tigers. Haviv has also photographed the city of Juárez, a battleground of the Mexican Drug War where civilian, law enforcement and cartel member casualties occur daily. Additionally, Haviv covered the destruction of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, as well as the subsequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Grecco
Michael Grecco (born May 20, 1958) is an American photographer, film director and author. Early life and education Grecco was born in the Bronx and grew up near New York City. He received his first camera (a Mamiya/Sekor 35mm single-lens reflex) when he was 12. He attended Boston University, where he studied filmmaking and photojournalism as an undergraduate at BU's School of Communications. During his time at Boston University he also studied with photography historian and photographer Carl Chiarenza. Career While in college, Grecco began working as a freelance photographer for the Associated Press and then later became a staff photographer at ''Boston Herald.'' He also shot the burgeoning new music scene for Boston Rock Magazine and the Boston radio station WBCN, documenting Boston's "pivotal role in launching the punk rock explosion" of the 1970s. During the same time period, he began his career as a magazine photographer working for the Picture Group Agency based in Provid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmet Ertuğ
Ahmet Ertuğ (born 1949) is a fine art photographer and publisher based in Istanbul, Turkey. He was trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, from where he graduated in 1974. He specializes in large format photography of architectural and archaeological edifices of the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods in the history of Turkey. With Ahmet Kocabıyık he founded Ertuğ & Kocabıyık: Publishers of Fine Art Books. Ahmet Ertuğ's photographs were published in a series of 25 volumes. In 2009 Ahmet Ertuğ photographed 30 historical libraries in Europe. He developed the volume ''Temples of Knowledge: Libraries of the Western World'' from these photographs. His latest photographic project documenting the architecture of grand opera houses has been published under the title ''Palaces of Music: Opera Houses of Europe'' in December 2010, text written by Michael Forsyth. In 2012 the tome ''Gods of Nemrud: The Royal Sanctuary of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Campigotto
Luca Campigotto (born February 23, 1962) is an Italian artist photographer and writer. He was born in Venice, where he graduated in modern history. He is known for his images on night citiescapes and wild landscapes. Among his city series are Venice, New York, Chicago, Cairo, Morocco, Angkor, India, Iran, Patagonia, Easter Island, Yemen, and Lapland. Books * ''L'ora blu'', Fondazione Capri, 2019 * ''Matera'', Opera Edizioni, San Benedetto del Tronto, 2019 * ''Disoriente'', Postcart Edizioni, Rome, 2018 * ''Venezia, storie d'acqua'', texts by Tiziano Scarpa, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2018 * ''Iconic China'', texts by W. M. Hunt, Damiani, Bologna, 2017 * ''Le règles de la vision'', texts by François Hébel and Walter Guadagnini, Italian Cultural Institute, Paris 2016 * ''ROMA. Un impero alle radici dell'Europa'', texts by Louis Godart and Livio Zerbini, Silvana Editoriale, Milan 2015 * ''Theatres of War'', texts by Lyle Rexer, Mario Isnenghi, Marco Meneguzzo, Gustavo Pie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
