Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits.
Sherman’s “Untitled Film Stills” (1977-80) is a series of 69 black and white photographs of the artist herself enacting various generic female film characters from 1950s, and 60s Hollywood, film nior and European art-house films. Her aim is not to recreate the scenes but to re-examine women’s stereotypical roles in history and contemporary society.
All images Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures. © Cindy Sherman
André Kertész was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and pioneer of the photo essay. He also made a major contribution to lyrical street photography.
Kertész was influenced by Constructivism and Surrealism, but his own style was an entirely personal blend of emotion and observation.
Image source:
http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Andre-Kertesz.html
Lee Friedlander is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 1970s Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban “social landscape,” with many of his photographs including fragments of store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, posters and street signs.
Images resources: http://www.moma.org/collection/artists/2002?locale=en
Masahisa Fukase was a Japanese photographer, celebrated for his deeply autobiographical work depicting his domestic life. Fukase’s career is often listed as two monomaniacally consistent phases: before his wife Yōko Wanibe left him, when he photographed nothing but her, and after the breakdown of his marriage, tormented by heartbreak, he photographed nothing but ravens.
The Solitude of Ravens was the last book Fukase personally made. The blurry, grainy black and white images are symbols of his grief and a personal statement of loss at the breakdown of his marriage to Yoko. The book was first published in 1986, just a few years before he plunged into a coma after tumbled down a flight of stairs at his favorite bar. He died in 2012 after lying for 20 years in a coma.
Images @ Masahisa Fukase
Photos from: http://www.gallery51.com/
Fascinating photos by Tokyo street photographer Katsumi Watanabe, captured the rich subculture of the Shinjuku District.
Images from 1960s – 1980s including black and white photographs shot of underworld characters at night in dance and strip clubs in Shinjuku.
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In 1955, Truman Capote rented a basement apartment at 70 Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights. His short, autobiographical essay about living in the neighborhood was originally published in February 1959 in Holiday magazine. The essay was brought back into print more than fifty years after with sixty stunning, never-before-seen photos of Capote and his neighborhood by David Attie, originally commissioned for the article but never published–until now.
(All Photos: © David Attie)
(All Photos: © David Attie)
(All Photos: © David Attie)
(All Photos: © David Attie)
(All Photos: © David Attie)
(All Photos: © David Attie)
(All Photos: © David Attie)
(All Photos: © David Attie)
Roger Perry’s The Writing on the Wall was last published in 1976. The book featuring black & white images documenting London’s political and counter-culture graffiti scene or the 1970s.
To mark the 40th anniversary, the book is now being re-released. The republication was funded through Kickstarter.
An exhibition of photos from “The Writing On The Wall” will be showing at The Horse Hospital, 11th July – 1st August.
Notting Hill Gate, c.1974
Basing Street, Notting Hill, London, c.1974
Elgin Avenue, Maida Vale, London, c.1974
Hammersmith and City Line (between Ladbroke Grove and Westbourne Park), c.1974
Richmond roundabout, c.1974
Near Portobello Road, Notting Hill Gate, London, c.1974
King Henry’s Road, Chalk Farm, London, c.1974
Flats near Arsenal football ground, Highbury, c.1974
All photo courtesy @ Roger Gerry/Guzelian
Philippe Halsman was an American portrait photographer who photographed some of the most celebrated figures of the mid-20th century—from artists to movies stars to intellectuals to politicians. His dynamic and surreal photography challenged the rules of the day by going against the soft focus and static style of the time and giving sharp focus to his subjects.
Visit http://philippehalsman.com/ to view more amazing portraits by Philippe Halsman.
© Copyright 2014 Halsman Archive. All rights reserved.
Photo by Philip Jones Griffiths VIETNAM. South Vietnam. Saigon. 1970
Photo by Ian Berry Germany. Berlin. Berlin Wall. At Christmas 1963, the Berlin Wall was opened for the first time to allow families and friends, split from each other by its building, to get together again. West Germans wait for their friends and family from East Berlin to cross through the wall and join them.
Photo by John Vink CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 26/12/2012: Santa Claus carrying the symbol of justice during demonstration of supporters from the Boeung Kak Lake and the Borei Keila communities at the trial of Tim Sakmony and Yorm Bopha at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court
Photo by Susan Meiselas USA. New York City. 1977. From the series, “Volunteers of America.”
Photo by Chris Steele-Perkins Bethlehem. Israeli patrol soldier passing New Year and Christmas decorations. 1987.87.
Photo by Mark Power GB. London. Crisis at Christmas. A warehouse in south-east London offers shelter for about 800 homeless men and women for eight days over the Christmas period. December 1990.
Photo by Josef Koudelka FRANCE. Perpignan. 1993. Homeless person in front of TREMPLIN at Christmas time. The TREMPLIN is a charitable organisation provided by former members of the Saint Vincent de Paul religious order.
Photo by David Hurn USA. ARIZONA. Inspiration. Cactus Country Park. Cactus as Christmas Tree. Putting up the lights.
Photo by Philip Jones Griffiths GB. England. London. 1960. Christmas in Piccadilly Circus. Advertisements reflected off a shop window where the nativity scene was displayed.
Photo by Stuart Franklin Mexico City. Xochimilco. Market. 1996
Photo by Martin Parr PORTUGAL. Madeira. Madeira at Christmas. 1999.
Photo by Alex Webb 6/15/1999 MEXICO. Tijuana.MEXICO. Tijuana, B.C. 1999.
Image courtesy @ Magnum Photos
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