Nan Goldin (1953)
Nan Goldin picked up a camera at the age of fifteen and never put it down. Born Nancy Goldin in Washington, D.C., in 1953, she was raised in a comfortable suburban household whose outward respectability concealed a private tragedy that would shape everything she made. Her older sister Barbara committed suicide at the age of […]
Read MoreNaomi Harris
Naomi Harris is a Canadian documentary photographer based in Toronto whose work has consistently been drawn to the margins of North American culture — the communities, rituals, and gathering places where people shed their everyday inhibitions and construct alternative versions of themselves. Her photographs are characterised by their vivid colour, their unflinching intimacy, and their […]
Read MoreNew Documents, 1967 – Sarah Hermanson Meister
From Amazon: In 1967, The Museum of Modern Art presented New Documents, a landmark exhibition organized by John Szarkowski that brought together a selection of works by three photographers whose individual achievements signalled the artistic potential for the medium in the 1960s and beyond: Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand. Though largely unknown at the […]
Read MoreNicholas Nixon
Nicholas Nixon was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1947 and grew up in a middle-class family in the suburbs. He studied American literature at the University of Michigan before turning to photography, earning his MFA from the University of New Mexico in 1974 under the tutelage of Beaumont Newhall. It was there that Nixon committed […]
Read MoreNikki S. Lee
Nikki S. Lee was born Lee Seung-Hee in 1970 in the small town of Kye-chang, South Korea. She studied photography at Chung-Ang University in Seoul before moving to New York in 1994 to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology, followed by graduate studies at New York University. It was in New York — that great […]
Read MoreNobuyoshi Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki was born in 1940 in the Minowa district of Tokyo, near the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter, and the geography of his birth would prove prophetic. He grew up in a neighbourhood saturated with the history of desire, entertainment, and the floating world, and from his earliest years he absorbed the visual culture of a […]
Read MoreOn Photography – Susan Sontag
From Waterstones: Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the ‘insatiability of the photographing eye’ has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. Photographs have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia […]
Read MoreOtto Snoek
Otto Snoek is a Dutch contemporary photographer whose work occupies a distinctive space between documentary observation and poetic interpretation. Working primarily in the Netherlands, Snoek brings to the familiar landscapes, interiors, and domestic scenes of his home country an eye that is simultaneously precise and dreamlike, finding in the flat Dutch terrain and its distinctive […]
Read MoreOtto Steinert
Otto Steinert was born in 1915 in Saarbrücken, in the Saar region of Germany that would change national sovereignty several times during his lifetime. He studied medicine at the universities of Munich, Marburg, and Berlin, qualifying as a physician in 1939, and served as a military doctor during the Second World War. But photography had […]
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