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Australia (3), Austria (3), Belgium (2), Brasil (3), Bulgaria (1), Canada (15), China (4), Croatia (3), Czechoslovakia (2), Denmark (3), Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), Finland (1), France (13), Germany (13), Great Britain (25), Greece (1), India (1), Israel (1), Italy (17), Japan (3), Jordan (1), Latvia (1), Mexico (1), Namibia (1), Netherlands (6), New Zealand (4), Philippines (1), Poland (1), Portugal (2), Puerto Rico (1), Romania (1), Slovakia (1), South Africa (4), Spain (6), Sweden (1), Switzerland (17), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1), United States (100)
 
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Artists / United States
View Portfolio Jock Sturges American, born 1947 Jock Sturges has long been a lightning rod for controversy for his distinctive brand of nude photography. Sturges shoots much of his work around nudist beaches in France and northern California, and his most frequent subjects have been adolescent girls. The photos have an undeniably erotic quality, unlike some types of nude photography that treat the human body more as abstract form. ...

Artists / Belgium
View Portfolio Artists Website Carl de Keyzer Belgian, born 1958 One of a generation of reporters to have emerged in the late 1980s, Carl de Keyzer likes to tackle large-scale projects and general themes. He often starts from the premise that disaster has already struck and that everywhere infrastructures are on the verge of collapse in overpopulated communities. De Keyzer started his career as a freelance photographer in ...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Ansel Adams American, 1902 - 1984 Adams was born in the Western Addition of San Francisco, California to distinctly upper-class parents Charles and Olive Adams. He was an only child and was named after his uncle Ansel Easton. The Adams family came from New England, having migrated from the north of Ireland in the early 1700s but were not connected with the Presidential Adams family. His grandfather founded an...

Artists / Switzerland
View Portfolio Artist's Website Peter Gasser Swiss, born 1947  To the acknowledged Swiss masters of Photography of the last forty years - Hans Finsler, Gotthard Schuh, Werner Bischof, Paul Senn, Jakob Tuggener, Robert Frank and others - we may add an other name: Peter Gasser. A love for Swiss precision work is Gasser`s bond with his famous country-men. His predilection for landscape photography made him tur...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website David Levinthal American, born 1949 Photographer David Levinthal has long fixated on toys as signifiers of cultural myths, employing toy soldiers, cowboys and Indians to deconstruct historic icons through the prism of 1950s boyhood. In recent years, Levinthal has moved from boy's playthings to those of men, in the form of adult-oriented female figurines built from model kits. Though su...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Lewis Baltz American, born 1945   Lewis Baltz (born 1945 in Newport Beach, California) is a visual artist, philosopher,[citation needed] and well known photographer who became an icon of the New Topographic movement of the late 1970s. Baltz graduated from San Francisco Art Institute in 1969 and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate School. He received several scholarships and awa...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio George Tice American, born 1938 George Tice recently marked his fortieth year in photography. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1938, he joined the Cateret Camera Club at the age of fourteen. At sixteen he left high school to work as a darkroom assistant for a photo studio. A year later he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving as a photographer's mate, after which he worked as a home portrait photographer for ten yea...

Artists / Netherlands
  View Portfolio Rineke Dijkstra Dutch, born 1959 Rineke Dijkstra documents people in transitional moments: mothers shortly after giving birth, young people entering the military, matadors still bloody from a bullfight, young club kids just off the dance floor, and preadolescent bathers on various beaches in the United States and Eastern Europe. Formally, her images resemble classical portraiture with their frontally posed figur...

Artists / Great Britain
  View Portfolio Artist's Website John Davies British, born 1945 "John Davies is one of today's most outstanding British photographers, he became famous through his research on the English industrial landscape, observed in vast and detailed views... John Davies's work belongs to the world of contemporary documentary photography. Faithful to a refined, pure black and white, taken on as the absolute rul...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Emmet Gowin American, born 1941 He grew up in southern Virginia. He began photographing in 1961, at the Richmond Professional Institute, and went on to graduate study at the Rhode Island School of Design. His prints have been exhibited widely and are in the collections of museums and galleries throughout the United States. Gowin lives with his wife, Edith, and their sons, Isaac and Elijah, in a small Pennsylvani...

Artists / Denmark
  View Portfolio   Artists Website Joakim Eskildsen Danish, born 1972 Joakim Eskildsen was born in Copenhagen in 1971 where he trained with the Royal Court photographer Rigmor Mydtskov. In 1994, he moved to Finland to learn the craft of photographic book making with Pentti Sammallahti at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, graduating with an MA degree in photography in 1998. ...

Artists / Japan
  View Portfolio Artist's Website   Hiroshi Sugimoto (杉本博司, Sugimoto Hiroshi), born on February 23, 1948, is a Japanese photographer currently dividing his time between Tokyo, Japan and New York City, USA. His catalog is made up of a number of series, each having a distinct theme and similar attributes.   // Life and Works Hiroshi Sugimoto was born and raised in Tokyo, ...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Irving Penn American, born 1917 Born in New Jersey,Irving Penn studied design at the Philadelphia Museum School, where he became a student of Alexey Brodovitch. In 1937, the year before he graduated, several of his drawings were published by Harper's Bazaar. From 1940 to 1941, he worked for the art and advertising director of Saks Fifth Avenue, and the following year he spent in Mexico painting, a medium...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio   Robert Adams American, born, 1937 Robert Adams (born May 8, 1937) is an American photographer who came to prominence as part of the photographic movement known as New Topographics. He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in photography in 1973 and 1980, and he received the MacArthur Foundation's MacArthur Fellowship in 1994. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York a...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio William Egglestone American born 1939 William Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Sumner, Mississippi. His father was an engineer who had failed as a cotton farmer, and his mother was the daughter of a prominent local judge. As a boy, Eggleston was introverted; he enjoyed playing the piano, drawing, and working with electronics. From an early age, he was also drawn to visual media, and repor...

Artists / Germany
View Portfolio August Sander German 1876 - 1964 August Sander was born and lived in Germany. He started his great project around 1910; his aim was to produce a kind of catalogue of representative types of German Society - 'Man in the Twentieth Century'. His portraits of individuals and small groups often show them in their working clothes and sometimes in their work environments, and are captioned by occupation - school-teac...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Artists Website Richard Avedon American 1923 - 2004 Born in New York in 1923, Richard Avedon dropped out of high school and joined the Merchant Marine's photographic section. Upon his return in 1944, he found a job as a photographer in a department store. Within two years he had been "found" by an art director at HARPER'S BAZAAR and was producing work for them as well as VOGUE, LOOK, and a nu...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Arists Website Mapplethorpe, Robert American, 1946-1989 At first Robert Mapplethorpe wanted to become a musician, but he eventually decided to study painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. In 1968 he met the singer Patti Smith with whom he moved to the now legendary Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan in 1970. Under the influence of his friend John McEndry, curator for printed art and photography at the Metropoli...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio Strand, Paul American, 1890-1976 Paul Strand, one of the towering figures of American 20th c. photography, was born in New York City, the only child of parents of Bohemian-Jewish descent. He first became interested in photography as a student at the Ethical Culture School under the influence of Lewis Hine. It was Hine who introduced Strand to Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo Secession Gallery in 1907. In the next few y...

Artists / France
View Portfolio Atget, Eugene French, 1857-1927 Jean Eugene Auguste Atget, among the first of photography's social documenters, has come to be regarded as one of the medium's major figures. His images of Paris are perhaps the most vivid record of a city ever made.  Atget was born in Libourne, near Bordeaux, France, and was raised by an uncle from an early age after the deaths of his parents. He became a cabin boy a...

Artists / Canada
  View Portfolio Karsh, Yousuf Canadian, 1908-2002  Yousuf Karsh came to international prominence with a 1941 Life cover: the famous "English bulldog," portrait of Winston Churchill. Karsh has photographed many thousands of subjects in the last 50 years, principally portraits of distinguished men and women in every field of endeavor: statesmanship, the arts, and the sciences. Karsh prefers to take his portraits in the su...

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Artists / China
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Ma Liang/ Maleonn China 1972 Born in Shanghai 1984-1995 Shanghai Huashan Art School Attached High School of Fine Art College of Shanghai University Graduated from Fine Art College of Shanghai University, Major in Graphic Design 1995-2003 Engaged in commercial film as Art director and Director 2004- Engaged in independent Creation of Art Lives and works in Shanghai, Chi...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website BIOGRAPHY Melvin Sokolsky was born and raised in Manhattan's Lower East Side during the lean years of the prewar era. Here he witnessed the entire spectrum of the human condition played out across a tough and tight-knit community. This experience was countered by a universe of visual riches found in the museums and books he regularly devoured. Melvin spent his days framing and log...

Artists / Canada
  View Portfolio Artist's Website From 8x10 sheet film, 120mm and 35mm originals and, from digital cameras, each produced on a basis of 360dpi, 16x24inch, through software like photoshop and  bryce, for the print is the 'proof' If one must 'define' the self, you could think of me as 'the child busy, each day of his/her life, digging a hole into the sandy beach and each day,  pouring the sea into this hol...

Artists / Great Britain
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Guy Sargent British, born 1965 Guy is a self-taught photographer working with a large format camera. The portfolio showcased here is a selection from an ongoing long-term project begun in 2006. Titled “What Lies Beneath The Surface”, the photographs examine both landscape & architecture and the series is constantly evolving.

Artists / Canada
  View Portfolio   Often contemplating the spaces between industrial wastelands and the bucolic, Bill Anderson is a pessimist looking for reasons to become an optimist. Born in Edinburgh Scotland, 1952, Bill now lives in Victoria, BC, Canada Past exhibition venues include: Galerii Pallas, Prague. Whyte Museum, Banff. Folio Gallery, Calgary. Bezallel Academy of Art, Jerusalem. Winsor Gallery, Vancouver. Peter Robertson Gallery,...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website   Daniel De Azoulay Biography: De Azoulay was born in Morocco, raised in Israel. His artistic endeavors started both in the field of music and photography; He played rhythm guitar in a rock band at the age of 14, at the same time his father’s best friend introduced De Azoulay to the secrets of darkroom and magic of film. However it was not before he moved to Europe upon graduating from h...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Rainer Behrens 27 W 20th st ste 604 NY, NY 10011 646-336-7171 contact@rainerbehrens.com German born artist. *1966 Living in NYC. Creats visual works of still and moving images, Owner and currator of Modern Editions Gallery. http://rainerbehrens.com http://moderneditions.com http://behrensvisuals.com

Artists / Italy
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Born in Florence in 1965, he began to take an interest in photography at the age of 13, thanks to his father who was an architectural and landscape photographer. Taught by his father, he started making various experiments in black and white, with his beloved Linhof, at the age of 17 while studyng at the Florence Istitute of Art. At the same time he collaboreted on his father’s book “Siena...

Artists / France
  View Portfolio Artist's Website   I take series of photos of places at different times of the day, sometimes randomly, to emphasize the interraction between the light and the shade, the effect of time on the beauty of the instant. This way, probable or more unlikely encounters unveil the invisible from the visible. My photos are a reflection on the fickleness of people, of things. Signs that draw their way through ligh...

Artists / Canada
  View Portfolio Artist's Website   Albert Normandin Canadian, born 1955 Albert Normandin was born in the French Canadian community of Maillardville on the outskirts of Vancouver, B.C. At an early age, Albert was fascinated with making images using a Kodak Brownie box camera. In his teenage years he was distracted by a mechanical urge to take things apart and make them go faster, cars mainly. This eventually lead into a care...

Artists / United States
View Portfolio ARTIST'S WEBSITE   Jason Langer American Born Tucson, Arizona, 1967 Jason Langer is a masterful black-and-white photographer who has learned the importance of self-expression and following his own path. In high school, he decided he wanted to pursue photography as a career. He was inspired by the beautiful black-and-white images of Michael Kenna, and had the opportunity to meet this renowned photographer. As an u...

Artists / Great Britain
  View Portfolio Artist's Website © MARK BENTLEY A British photographer born in 1979, Mark Bentley lives and works in Madrid, Spain. His work explores the built environment and aims to challenge spatial perceptions whilst examining the act of human inhabitation. Having trained as an architect, he now concurrently works as an architectural photographer and artist. He has been widely published and exhibited in Spain. This portf...

Artists / Great Britain
  View Portfolio Artist's Website John Claridge Collection Biography At the age of 15 John Claridge started his career in photography and the advertising industry working at McCann-Erickson in London.   It was during a two-year period there that he had his first one-man show. In 1963, at the age of 19, he had his own studio in the City of London, after assisting American photographer David Montgomery for two years. Since...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Tim Barnwell has spent a lifetime exploring the southern Appalachian region, documenting the farm culture, visiting with and photographing the people of its isolated mountain enclaves from his base in Asheville, North Carolina. His remarkable black-and-white images, mostly taken with a vintage 4x5 inch view camera, capture scenes of farming, hunting, religious activities, people working with oxen a...

Artists / Canada
  View Portfolio David Burdeny Canadian, born 1968 Artists Website

Artists / Italy
  View Portfolio Gabriele Basilico Italian, born 1944 Gabriele Basilico is among the best known documentary photographers in Europe, cities and industrial landscapes are his fields of research. Originally an architect, he works as a photographer of architecture for publishing firms, industry, public and private institutions. In 1984 and 1985 he is commissioned by DATAR (the delegation for planning the country and helping reg...

Artists / France
  View Portfolio   Laurent Gineste French, born 1956  

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website ARTIST’S STATEMENT “The enemy of photography is the convention….  The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.”  Lazlo Moholy-Nagy My art brings together the aesthetics of abstract painting and printmaking with the materials used in the process of photography.  I use both a control of the medium and an allowance for the accidental – control and ...

Artists / Germany
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Marcus Kaufhold Born 1962 Journalist since 1984 Photojournalist since 1989 Starts working for the F.A.Z. - the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" the same year. Never did an exhibition. Looking forward. Statement "A good photo in the news is first a sensation - second a mystery.  The newspapers reader is first stroken by a surprise - then he is keen to read the story because o

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website   Philip Trager American, born 1935 Active as a photographer for more than forty years, Philip Trager is a preeminent photographer of dance and architecture. His photographs of contemporary dancers and performance artists have expanded the genre of dance photography. His book, The Villas of Palladio, has become a standard document for architects and architectural historians. His most recent b...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website David Underwood American, born 1959. David Underwood is a professor of art and photography, and the Chairperson of the Art Department, at Carson-Newman College, in Tennessee. The third of six children of a musician mother and an architect father, he was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. Underwood has been working as a professional artist and photographer since 1982, and has been teaching since 1988....

Artists / France
  View Portfolio Michel Leconte Born: Riom, France. Interest in Photography began whilst at school and has escalated over the years. Photographic training : intern in the Jean-Claude Dewolf’s studio in Paris. Freelance photographer, his photos have been published in magazines such as Marie-Claire, Realites, Plexus, Lui, Le Nouvel Observateur… Other visual creations : painting and computer graphics.

Artists / Canada
    View Portfolio Artist's Website   Lise Caron Candian, Born 1972  

Artists / Great Britain
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Chris Harrison Born in 1967 in Jarrow, England. Studied Photography at Trent Polytechnic and graduated in 1990. Completed a Masters at the Royal College of Art in 1999.  Chris Harrison’s work is documentary, but more often than not it’s his own experience that is being documented.  Harrison’s first major show “Whatever happened to Audra Patterson?” followed the ...

Artists / United States
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Artists / Croatia
  View Portfolio Artist's Website   Nenad Biukovic Born 1973 in Croatia

Artists / Australia
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Bio Born in Dublin, Ireland. Moved to New York in 1980. Now lives in Sydney Australia. Artist Statement I try to capture images that are mentally stimulating and visually pleasing which also contain some mystery.

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website Adam E. Isler
 American, born 1957 Photographer Adam Isler is a New York street photographer, born and bred. His early work focused on the raucous street antics of the turbulent late 1960s in New York’s Central Park. In the mid to late '70s he worked as an event photographer and had the opportunity to photograph some notable political figures through his work at UN Plaza. After an abse...

Artists / United States
  View Portfolio Artist's Website   Artist Statement     My old friend, Garry Winogrand used to say, “I photograph to see what something will look like photographed”.  So do I.  I’m fascinated by that dynamic.  But I also put a lot of emphasis on what I photograph.  Over the years I have been drawn to all manner of subjects:  Indians, cowboys, boxers, rodeos, lucha libre (M...

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