" I drifted into Photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually did it for the money " - Philippe Halsman Philippe Halsman was born in Riga and began to take photographs in Paris in the 1930s. He opened a [...]
Stern was born in Wuppertal in 1904, growing up in a comfortable family who worked in textiles. She moved to Berlin in 1927, and studied photography with members of the Bauhaus, the conceptual school that opened in Dessau. She worked as a freelance graphic design and advertising artist in her hometown until moving to Berlin [...]
" Often my best photographs are the ones I didn't take" - Mariana Yampolsky Marianna Yampolsky was one of the major figure of Mexican photography in the 20th Century. Born in Chicago, Mariana Yampolsky emigrated to Mexico in the 1940’s and became a Mexican citizen in 1954. She participated in the Taller de Gráfica Popular, [...]
Flip Schulke (American, June 24, 1930–May 15, 2008) is best known for his work documenting the Civil Rights movement. He was born in 1930 in New Hampshire. After receiving a Kodak ‘Baby Brownie Special’ camera, he began photography as a high-school student in New Ulm, Minnesota. After serving in the Korean War, Schulke enrolled at [...]
"I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of us to the immense hardships beyond our borders"- Werner Bischof Werner Bischof was born in Switzerland. He studied photography with Hans Finsler in his native Zurich at the School for [...]
James Abbe was an American photographer born in 1883 in Alfred, Maine. He was a portraitist to the stars in the 1920's world of theatre and film, a pioneer photojournalist observing first hand the dramatically changing European cultural and political situation. James Abbe first became interested in photography at the age of 12 after he [...]
" I need to become completely anonymous if I'm to capture the essence, the root fact about the person and not merely their surface " - Dan Budnik Dan Budnik is a photojournalist who has documented social, political and cultural change in the world for past 55 years. He was at the heart of the [...]
