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Will Steacy
Will Steacy (born 1980) is an American writer and photographer based in New York City. His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Life and work Steacy "descended from five generations of newspaper men. His great-great-great-grandfather started the Evening Dispatch in York, Pa., in 1876 and his father was an editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer." He received his BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts, at New York University in 2003. Before becoming a professional photographer, he worked as a union laborer. Sean O'Hagan in ''The Observer'' described Steacy's ''Down these Mean Streets'' (2012) as "a merging of his own photographs with newspaper clippings, journal entries and various found material pertaining to the long death of the American dream, from Reaganomics in the 1980s to the current economic recession." In 2011 he photographed paper money, "removed from circulation but not yet destroyed, and photographed them with a large-format fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Contemporary Photography
The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) was founded in 1976 by Columbia College Chicago as the successor to the Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography. The museum houses a permanent collection as well as the Midwest Photographers Project (MPP), which contains portfolios of photographers and artists' work who reside in the Midwestern United States. The Museum of Contemporary Photography began collecting in the early 1980s and has since grown its collection to include more than 15,000 objects by over 1,500 artists. The MoCP is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. History MoCP's initial permanent collection was defined as "contemporary", including works by American photographers since the 1950s. In the early 2000s, the date was pushed back to include the Farm Security Administration works of the 1930s and works by international artists. Permanent collection The MoCP's permanent collection includes work by Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Juli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmet Gowin
Emmet Gowin (born 1941) is an American photographer. He first gained attention in the 1970s with his intimate portraits of his wife, Edith, and her family. Later he turned his attention to the landscapes of the American West, taking aerial photographs of places that had been changed by humans or nature, including the Hanford Site, Mount St. Helens, and the Nevada Test Site. Gowin taught at Princeton University for more than 35 years. Life and career Gowin was born in Danville, Virginia. His father, Emmet Sr., was a Methodist minister and his Quaker mother played the organ in church. When he was two his family moved to Chincoteague Island, where he spent much of his free time in the marshes around their home drawing animals and plant life. At about age 12 his family moved back to Danville, where Gowin. When he was 16 he saw an Ansel Adams photograph of a burnt tree with a young bud growing from the stump. This inspired him to go into the woods near his home and draw from nature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ellen Mark
Mary Ellen Mark (March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015) was an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were "away from mainstream society and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes". Mark had 18 collections of her work published, most notably ''Streetwise'' and ''Ward 81''. Her work was exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide and widely published in ''Life'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''The New Yorker'', ''New York Times'', and '' Vanity Fair''. She was a member of Magnum Photos between 1977 and 1981. She received numerous accolades, including three Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the 2014 Lifetime Achievement in Photography Award from the George Eastman House and the Outstanding Contribution Photography Award from the World Photography Organisation. Life and work Mark was born and raised in Elkins Park, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Lutz
Joshua Lutz (born July 18, 1975) is an American artist working with large-format photography and with video. He is currently the head of the Photography department and a professor at Purchase College in NY. Life and work Lutz was given his first solo exhibition at Gitterman Gallery during the summer of 2004. In 2008 Lutz's first book, ''Meadowlands,'' was published with powerHouse Books. In essayist Robert Sullivan's introduction to the book he describes the ''Meadowlands'' as “… that giant swath of swamp and space that separates New Jersey from New York City, or, put another way, from New York City and the rest of the United States of America.” The ''New Yorker New Yorker or ''variant'' primarily refers to: * A resident of the State of New York ** Demographics of New York (state) * A resident of New York City ** List of people from New York City * ''The New Yorker'', a magazine founded in 1925 * ''The New ...'' wrote "Joshua Lutz takes the ''New Topographics of'' ''Adams'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deana Lawson
Deana Lawson (1979) is an American artist, educator, and photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is primarily concerned with intimacy, family, spirituality, sexuality, and Black aesthetics. Lawson has been praised for her ability to communicate the nuances of African American experience: "Lawson’s ''oeuvre'' explores intimacy, affinity, sexuality and relationships. She has work held in the International Center for Photography collections. Her photographs have been exhibited in a number of museums and galleries including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Lawson was the winner of the Hugo Boss Prize in 2020 "for significant achievement in contemporary art". A solo exhibition of her work, ''The Hugo Boss Prize 2020: Deana Lawson, Centropy'' is on view May 7-October 11, 2021 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Biography Lawson was born in 1979 in Rochester, New York. She received her B.F.A in 2001 in photogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Lavalette
Shane Lavalette (born 1987) is an American photographer. Life and work Lavalette was born in Burlington, Vermont. He studied photography at Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he received a BFA in 2009. In 2010, Lavalette was commissioned by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta to contribute to their ''Picturing the South'' series, His work was exhibited there in 2012 and received media coverage from ''CNN'', ''Time'', ''NPR'', and ''The New York Times.'' His book ''One Sun, One Shadow'' is an extension of this body of work. In 2011, Lavalette was hired as the associate director of Light Work, a non-profit photography organization in Syracuse, New York. He was appointed director two years later, in 2013. At Light Work, Lavalette oversees the organization's Artist-in-Residence Program, exhibitions, and publication of ''Contact Sheet'', a photography journal. In 2017, Lavalette was commissioned by Fotostiftung Schwiz to follow the footsteps o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Larsen
Erika Larsen (born 1976) is a transdisciplinary storyteller and photographer who is known for her intimate essays about cultures that maintain strong connections with nature. She immerses readers in cultures through her visual storytelling. Life Erika Larsen grew up in Washington, D.C. Her father was one of the designers of the Hubble Space Telescope. Strongly moved by the Hubble images, Larsen picked a technical university to hone her photography skills, and become a storyteller in the process. Between 1994 and 1999, Larsen received a B.F.A in Photographic Illustration and a M.F.A. in Computer Graphics and Film/Video from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. She began working professionally as a magazine photographer in 2000, specializing in human-interest stories. Work Erika Larsen's work uses photography, video and writing to learn about cultures. She seeks to explore our human connection to the natural world, as these are expressed through culturally unique ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Kereszi
Lisa Kereszi (born 1973) is an American photographer and professor from Pennsylvania. Life and work Kereszi grew up in Pennsylvania where her father owned a junk yard in Trainer and her mother owned and ran an antique store. Kereszi earned a BA from Bard College working with Stephen Shore and others. After graduating from Bard, she began working as an assistant to Nan Goldin. After NYC, she attended Yale University in 2000 to earn an MFA. She has been associated with the university since 2004 as faculty. Her work uses color photography and deals with both fantasy and the idea of home. In the realm of fantasy or "places around the cultural fringe", her projects have included haunted houses both operating and during daylight hours, burlesque dancers, and strip clubs. For work about home, she photographed her grandfather's junk yard, culminating in a book published in 2012 about which ''The New York Times'' remarked the junkyard was "a perfect place for an artist to be born." She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Kashi
Ed Kashi (born 1957) is an American photojournalist and member of VII Photo Agency based in the Greater New York area. Kashi's work spans from print photojournalism to experimental film. He is noted for documenting sociopolitical issues. Personal life Kashi was born in New York City in 1957. He graduated from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1979 with a major in photojournalism. He is married to Julie Winokur who is also a photographer and frequent collaborator. Career Kashi has worked with National Geographic Society since 1990 and worked in over 60 countries. His clients include: ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''Time'', Mediastorm, Ford Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, ''GEO'', ''Newsweek'' and msnbc.com. Kashi has covered the plight of the Kurdish people and the impact of the oil industry upon the impoverished Niger Delta. He is known for his coverage of the Protestant community in Northern Ireland, the lives of Jewish settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadav Kander
Nadav Kander HonFRPS (born 1 December 1961) is a London-based photographer, artist and director, known for his portraiture and landscapes. Kander has produced a number of books and had his work exhibited widely. He received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society in 2015, and won the Prix Pictet award. Life and work Kander was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. His father flew Boeing 707s for El-Al but lost his eye and was unable to continue flying. His parents decided to start again in South Africa and moved to Johannesburg in 1963. Kander began taking pictures when he was 13 on a Pentax camera, which he bought with his Bar Mitzvah money. He states the pictures that he took then and until he was 17, although unaccomplished, have the same sense of quiet and unease that is part of his work today. After being drafted into the South African Air Force, Kander worked in a darkroom printing aerial photographs. It was there he became certain he wanted to be a photographe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Jordan (artist)
Chris Jordan (born 1963) is an American artist, photographer and film producer based in Seattle, Washington. Works Many of Jordan's works are created from photographs of waste, garbage and mass consumption, a serendipitous technique which started when he visited an industrial yard to look at patterns of color and order. Jordan uses everyday commonalities such as a plastic cup and defines the blind unawareness involved in American consumerism. His work, while often unsettling, is a message about unconscious behaviors in our everyday lives, leaving it to the viewer to draw conclusions about the inevitable consequences which will arise from our habits. Jordan's work can be grouped in the following series: * ''Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption'' (2003–2006) – A series of large format photographs depicting the magnitude of America's waste and consumption. * ''In Katrina’s Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster'' (2005) – A series of photogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Hornstra
Rob Hornstra (born 1975) is a Dutch photographer and self-publisher of documentary work, particularly of areas of the former Soviet Union. Early life Hornstra was born in Borne, Overijssel, Netherlands. Career Hornstra studied Social and Legal Services at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences from 1994 to 1998; for a year from summer 1996, he interned and then worked as a probation officer. From September 1998, he worked for over eight years as a host and bartender at Muziekcentrum Vredenburg in Utrecht. From 1999 to 2004, he studied photographic design at Utrecht School of the Arts.Profile (public), linkedin.com. Accessed 4 January 2011. For his graduation project he spent one month in Russia photographing the lives of the first generation of young people growing up after the fall of communism. In the same year that he graduated he publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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