" 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 [...]
" I think that to make a Photograph, you have to be so completely absorbed in what you are photographing that you forget yourself, and become what you photograph " - Ellen Auerbach Auerbach nee Rosenberg was a German born photographer who is best remembered for her innovative artwork for the ringl+pit studio in Berlin [...]
Willy Maywald (1907-1985) was one of the most important photographers in Paris from the 1930s to the 1950s. He was born in Kleve in the Lower Rhine region in 1907, he attended the schools of applied arts in Krefeld, Cologne, and Berlin which shaped his avant-garde style. His education in the Technical Schools of Art [...]
