Walter Chappell
Walter Chappell was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1925, into a world he would spend a lifetime attempting to see more deeply. From his earliest years he displayed an unusual sensitivity to the natural environment of the Pacific Northwest — the forests, coastline, and volcanic landscapes that surrounded him. After serving in the United States […]
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Usher Fellig was born in 1899 in Lemberg, then part of Austria-Hungary and now the Ukrainian city of Lviv. His family moved briefly to Złoczew before emigrating to the United States in 1909, settling on New York’s Lower East Side amid the teeming immigrant tenements that would later become his photographic territory. The family was […]
Read MoreWilliam Christenberry
William Christenberry was born in 1936 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and raised in the rural landscape of Hale County, a place that would become the central subject and abiding obsession of his life’s work. His family had farmed the red clay soil of west-central Alabama for generations, and the tenant houses, country churches, roadside stores, and […]
Read MoreWilliam Eggleston (1939)
William Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1939 and raised in Sumner, Mississippi, a small town in the heart of the cotton-growing Delta. His family belonged to the landed Southern aristocracy: his father was an engineer, his grandfather a prominent judge and plantation owner. Eggleston grew up in a world of slow afternoons, clapboard […]
Read MoreWilliam Klein
William Klein was born in 1926 in New York City, the son of Hungarian Jewish immigrants who ran a clothing shop on the Upper West Side. He grew up tough and streetwise in a city that would become both his greatest subject and the antagonist against which he defined himself. A precocious student, he graduated […]
Read MoreZoe Strauss
Zoe Strauss was born in 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and has remained rooted in the city throughout her life and career. She grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in South Philadelphia, and the landscapes of that environment — the row houses, vacant lots, corner stores, highway overpasses, and the people who inhabit them — became […]
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