John Schott
John Schott is among the least visible yet most conceptually rigorous of the photographers who participated in the landmark 1975 New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape exhibition at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. Born in 1944, Schott studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology and later at the Visual Studies Workshop, […]
Read MoreJohn Gossage
John Gossage was born in 1946 in New York City but has spent most of his working life in Washington, D.C., a city whose margins, neglected spaces, and transitional zones have provided the primary subject matter for one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary photography. He came to the medium young, studying […]
Read MoreJohn Baldessari
John Baldessari was born in 1931 in National City, California, a working-class town near the Mexican border just south of San Diego. His father was a salvage dealer who had emigrated from Austria, and his mother was Danish. It was not a background that naturally led to the art world, and Baldessari’s path to becoming […]
Read MoreJoel Sternfeld
Joel Sternfeld was born in 1944 in New York City and grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He studied painting at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1965, and it was during his undergraduate years that he began to experiment with photography. His early interest in the medium was shaped less by the prevailing […]
Read MoreJoel Meyerowitz
Joel Meyerowitz was born in 1938 in the Bronx, New York, into a working-class family whose world revolved around the dense, teeming streets of the city. He studied painting and medical illustration at Ohio State University, disciplines that sharpened his eye for form, anatomy, and the precise observation of detail. Yet it was not in […]
Read MoreJoe Deal
Joe Deal was born in 1947 in Topeka, Kansas, and grew up in the heartland of a country that was rapidly transforming itself. After studying painting at the Kansas City Art Institute, he turned to photography, earning his BFA in 1970 and subsequently pursuing graduate work at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque under […]
Read MoreJoachim Schmid
Joachim Schmid was born in 1955 in Balingen, a small town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and has devoted his career to one of the most radical and sustained interrogations of photography’s nature and purpose ever undertaken. Since the early 1980s, working from Berlin, Schmid has produced an enormous body of work without ever — or almost […]
Read MoreJim Goldberg
Jim Goldberg was born in 1953 in New Haven, Connecticut, and has spent his career developing a form of documentary photography that is at once deeply personal and rigorously engaged with questions of social justice, power, and representation. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he earned his MFA, and it was in […]
Read MoreJeff Wall
Jeff Wall was born in 1946 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and has remained based in that city throughout his career, making it both his home and his primary subject. He studied art history at the University of British Columbia, completing a master’s thesis on the Berlin Dada movement, and subsequently spent time in London at […]
Read MoreJeff Mermelstein
Jeff Mermelstein was born in 1957 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and has spent the better part of four decades walking the streets of New York City with a camera, producing a body of work that ranks among the sharpest and most witty contributions to the American street photography tradition. He studied at the School […]
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