Constantine 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 MoreFrederick Sommer
Frederick Sommer was born in 1905 in Angri, a small town near Naples in southern Italy. His father was a Swiss-German landscape architect, and the family moved frequently during Sommer’s childhood, living in Italy, Brazil, and eventually the United States. This itinerant upbringing gave him an unusually cosmopolitan perspective and a fluency in multiple languages […]
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 MoreGeorge Platt Lynes
George Platt Lynes was born in 1907 in East Orange, New Jersey, into a comfortable, cultured family. His father was a minister and his mother a woman of refined literary tastes who encouraged her son’s early interest in the arts. As a teenager, Lynes was already corresponding with Gertrude Stein and had begun publishing a […]
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 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 MoreDirck Halstead
Dirck Halstead was born in 1936 in Huntington, New York, and began his photographic career at an astonishingly young age. At fifteen, he was already selling photographs to local newspapers, and by the time he was seventeen, he had talked his way into covering the Guatemalan revolution of 1954 for United Press International, becoming one […]
Read MoreDorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895, the first child of a second-generation German-American family. At the age of seven she contracted polio, which left her with a permanent limp in her right leg. The experience marked her profoundly. Rather than retreating from the world, the disability gave her an acute sensitivity […]
Read MoreDoug DuBois
Doug DuBois is an American photographer whose practice is defined by the depth and duration of his engagement with his subjects. Where many photographers pass through communities, extracting images and moving on, DuBois commits to relationships that extend over years, sometimes decades, building a body of work that earns its intimacy through sustained presence and […]
Read MoreDuane Michals
Duane Michals was born in 1932 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, a steel town south of Pittsburgh whose industrial landscape and working-class culture shaped his early understanding of the world. His father worked in a steel mill, and the family lived modestly. Michals showed an early aptitude for drawing and visual thinking, but there was no tradition […]
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