Born in Budapest, Besnyö was brought up in a well-to-do Jewish home to father Bela Blumengrund and mother Ilona Kelemen. Her father was a lawyer who changed his name to a Hungarian sounding one in order to get ahead. She grew up fluent in Hungarian and German. In 1928, instead of attending university like her [...]
" A garbage can, occasionally, to me at least, can be beautiful. That's because you're seeing. Some people are able to see that - see it and feel it. I lean toward the enchantment, the visual power, of the aesthetically rejected subject' - Walker Evans Those are the words that intrigued enough to so some [...]
"Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest" - Lisette Model Lisette Model was born in Vienna, where she studied piano and compositional theory with Arnold Schönberg before moving to Paris. She discontinued her musical career in 1933, and discovered photography through her sister Olga and her friend Rogi André, André Kertész's [...]
Each I switch on my computer lately it is to edit an image or sometimes two or 3 images at the time. I’m not saying this is a bad thing but it is what I love to do. To be honest it is what I am passionate about. I’m passionate about the process and I [...]
Alice Austen was an American photographer born the 17th of March, 1866. Austen became interested in photography when her uncle, Oswald Müller, brought home a camera around 1876. Alice's uncle Peter Townsend Austen was a chemistry professor at Rutgers who taught her photographic processing. Peter and Oswald converted a closet on the second floor into Alice's [...]
Madame Yevonde was an English photographer born on the 5th January 1893 in Streatham, South London. Educated in liberal schools in the UK, France and Belgium, she joined the suffragette movement in 1910. Upon leaving school, she returned to the family home in Bromley, Kent and became active in suffragette activities, but realising that she was [...]
Jessie Tarbox Beals was an American photographer who was one of the first women in the United States to have a career as a photojournalist. Born 23 December 1870 in in Hamilton, Ontario,Jessie Tarbox Beals first trained as a teacher. She subsequently moved to Williamsburg, Massachusetts, at age 18 to make her living as a [...]
