Christer Strömholm
Christer Strömholm was born in 1918 in Stockholm, Sweden, into a family marked by disruption and restlessness. His parents separated when he was young, and he was raised by relatives, an early experience of displacement that would colour his entire life and art. As a young man, he studied painting at the art academies of […]
Read MoreChristian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski was born in Paris in 1944, just days after the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation. His birth date was itself a kind of marker: he entered the world at the precise moment when France was beginning the long, painful process of reckoning with the trauma of war, collaboration, and the Holocaust. […]
Read MoreChristopher Anderson
Christopher Anderson was born in 1970 in western Canada and raised in Texas. His path to photography was not immediate; he spent time drifting, working odd jobs, and slowly discovering that the camera offered him a way of engaging with the world that nothing else could match. His early work as a photojournalist took him […]
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 […]
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 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 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 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 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 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, […]
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