David Bailey
David Royston Bailey was born in 1938 in Leytonstone, in the East End of London, into a working-class family that could scarcely have been further from the world of fashion, art, and celebrity that he would come to dominate. His father was a tailor’s cutter, his mother a machinist. Bailey was severely dyslexic at a […]
Read MoreDavid Alan Harvey
David Alan Harvey was born in 1944 in San Francisco and grew up in Virginia, where his photographic life began remarkably early. At the age of eleven, he received a camera from his father and almost immediately began a long-term documentary project photographing an African American family in Norfolk, Virginia. This body of work, eventually […]
Read MoreDave Heath
Dave Heath was born in Philadelphia in 1931 and abandoned by his parents as an infant. He spent his childhood in a series of foster homes and orphanages, an experience of rejection and impermanence that would shape every aspect of his life and art. The loneliness of those early years became not merely the subject […]
Read MoreDan Winters
Dan Winters was born in 1962 in Ventura County, California, and grew up in a world far removed from the celebrity culture he would one day document with such extraordinary precision. His father was an aerospace engineer, and the family’s proximity to the space industry instilled in the young Winters a fascination with technology, engineering, […]
Read MoreDan Eldon
Dan Eldon was born in London in 1970 to an English mother, Kathy Eldon, a journalist and media executive, and an American father, Mike Eldon, a management consultant. When Dan was seven, the family relocated to Nairobi, Kenya, a move that would shape every dimension of his creative life. Growing up in East Africa, surrounded […]
Read MoreDaido Moriyama
Daidō Moriyama was born in 1938 in the industrial city of Ikeda, in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. His childhood was shaped by the upheavals of wartime and postwar reconstruction, and the restless energy of a nation remaking itself would become one of the defining currents of his art. As a young man, Moriyama had no particular […]
Read MoreCorinne Day
Corinne Day was born in 1962 in Ealing, west London, and grew up in a modest working-class household far removed from the world of high fashion that she would one day transform. She left school with few qualifications and spent her early twenties drifting through a series of jobs, including a stint as a courier […]
Read MoreConstantine Manos
Constantine Manos was born in 1934 in Columbia, South Carolina, to Greek immigrant parents who ran a small business in the heart of the American South. His connection to two cultures — the warmth and ritual of his Greek heritage and the sprawling, unpredictable energy of American life — would define his photographic vision. He […]
Read MoreClaude Cahun
Claude Cahun was born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob in 1894 in Nantes, France, into a prominent Jewish intellectual family. Her uncle was the Symbolist writer Marcel Schwob, and her father was the publisher of a regional newspaper. The milieu in which she grew up was one of letters, ideas, and cultural ambition, and from an […]
Read MoreCindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman was born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and grew up in Huntington, Long Island, the youngest of five children in a middle-class suburban family. From an early age, she was fascinated by disguise and transformation: she would raid her mother’s wardrobe, experiment with make-up, and spend hours in front of the […]
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