Corinne 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 MoreFazal Sheikh
Fazal Sheikh was born in New York City in 1965 to a Kenyan father of South Asian descent and a Swiss-American mother. This multicultural heritage instilled in him from the beginning an awareness of the complexity of belonging and displacement, themes that would come to define his life’s work. He studied at Princeton University, where […]
Read MoreArnold Newman
Arnold Newman was born on 3 March 1918 in New York City, though he grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and later in Miami Beach, Florida. His family’s circumstances were modest; his father managed a series of small businesses, and the young Newman showed an early aptitude for drawing and painting. He won a […]
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 MoreFrancesca Woodman
Francesca Stern Woodman was born in 1958 in Denver, Colorado, into a family of artists. Her father, George Woodman, was a painter and ceramicist; her mother, Betty Woodman, was a celebrated ceramic artist whose work would be exhibited internationally. The household was steeped in art and aesthetics, and Francesca grew up surrounded by creativity, spending […]
Read MoreBarbara Norfleet
Barbara Paine Norfleet was born in 1926 in Lakewood, New Jersey, into the very world of American privilege that would later become the central subject of her photographic work. She grew up in comfortable, educated surroundings and attended Bryn Mawr College, one of the elite women’s institutions of the American Northeast, where she studied the […]
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 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 MoreBerenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott was born on 17 July 1898 in Springfield, Ohio, and grew up in circumstances that were anything but auspicious for a future artist. Her parents separated when she was young, and she was raised in difficult conditions. Fiercely independent from an early age, she left Ohio as soon as she was able, moving […]
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 […]
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