Henry Wessel
Henry Wessel was born in 1942 in Teaneck, New Jersey, and grew up on the suburban East Coast before the landscape of the American West would claim him entirely. He studied psychology at Pennsylvania State University before turning to photography, earning his MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1972 under […]
Read MoreHippolyte Bayard
Hippolyte Bayard was born on 20 January 1801 in Breteuil-sur-Noye, a small town in the Oise department of northern France. He moved to Paris as a young man and found steady employment as a clerk in the Ministry of Finance, a position he would hold for much of his life. But behind the unremarkable façade […]
Read MoreIrving Penn
Irving Penn was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1917, the elder of two sons in a family of modest means. His younger brother, Arthur Penn, would go on to become one of Hollywood’s most celebrated directors, but it was Irving who first found his way into the visual arts. As a teenager he discovered […]
Read MoreJacob Aue Sobol
Jacob Aue Sobol was born in Copenhagen in 1976 and grew up in Denmark with an early awareness that he wanted to engage the world through direct, physical experience rather than from a comfortable distance. He studied at the European Film College in the mid-1990s, where he first picked up a camera, and subsequently enrolled […]
Read MoreJacques Henri Lartigue
Jacques Henri Lartigue was born on 13 June 1894 in Courbevoie, a suburb of Paris, into a wealthy and indulgent family that provided him with both the leisure and the equipment to begin photographing at an astonishingly early age. His father, Henri Lartigue, was a prosperous businessman and an enthusiastic amateur photographer who gave Jacques […]
Read MoreJeff Mermelstein
Jeff Mermelstein was born in 1957 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and has spent the better part of four decades walking the streets of New York City with a camera, producing a body of work that ranks among the sharpest and most witty contributions to the American street photography tradition. He studied at the School […]
Read MoreJeff Wall
Jeff Wall was born in 1946 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and has remained based in that city throughout his career, making it both his home and his primary subject. He studied art history at the University of British Columbia, completing a master’s thesis on the Berlin Dada movement, and subsequently spent time in London at […]
Read MoreJH Engström
Jan Henrik Engström was born in 1969 in Karlstad, the capital of the Värmland province in western Sweden, a landscape of forests, lakes, and long winters that would remain a permanent presence in his photographic imagination. He came to photography through a characteristically Scandinavian path: studying at the University of Gothenburg’s School of Photography and […]
Read MoreJim Goldberg
Jim Goldberg was born in 1953 in New Haven, Connecticut, and has spent his career developing a form of documentary photography that is at once deeply personal and rigorously engaged with questions of social justice, power, and representation. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he earned his MFA, and it was in […]
Read MoreJoachim Schmid
Joachim Schmid was born in 1955 in Balingen, a small town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and has devoted his career to one of the most radical and sustained interrogations of photography’s nature and purpose ever undertaken. Since the early 1980s, working from Berlin, Schmid has produced an enormous body of work without ever — or almost […]
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