Victoria Miller's Famous Photographers

24/08/2022

24/08/2022

Not here for a while have been terribly busy. Today, I am introducing Imogen Cunningham, another famous photographer. Born in - Portland, Oregon 1883, April 12. June 24, 1976 - San Francisco, California.
Cunningham's work as a photographer spans an entire century, moving through all developments in Modern Photography.
Imogen Cunningham, named after the heroine of Shakespeare's Cymbeline. Her father, Isaac Burns Cunningham, was a spiritualist, theosophist, freethinker, and vegetarian, and her mother was a Missouri Methodist who came West to be his wife. Cunningham attended the University of Washington. She worked closely with her chemistry teacher and was dedicated to acquiring a full understanding of the science behind her art. After she graduated in 1907, Cunningham went to work with Edward S. Curtis in his photography studio. Two years later she was awarded the Pi Beta Phi (an international women's fraternity) award to study abroad, and this took her to the Tekniche Hochshule in Dresden, Germany where she studied with Professor Robert Luther. This article and more is The Art Story you will find more on Imogen Cunningham
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/cunningham-imogen/

26/12/2021

Eugène Atget’s (1857–1927)In the late 1880s, he began photographing whatever artists needed as models for their work, and by 1898 he had established a practice in Paris. In the 1920s, Atget was heralded by Man Ray and the Surrealists for his photographs of window displays that melded reflections of the street with artifacts for sale, and for his pictures of places that seemed like so many theatrical stages pregnant with imminent action. Very few biographical facts are known about Atget. The Atget family (originally Atger) were saddlers and carriage-makers who had moved from Provence to the Dordogne River region after the Napoleonic Wars. By the late 1880s, when Atget was in his early 30s, he had become interested in photography. The earliest known photographs by him seem to have been made in the north of France. These works depict rural scenes, plants, and farming technology (e.g., plows, horses in harnesses, and windmills), and they were presumably made as studies for painters and illustrators in that decade that he changed the focus of his photographic business to concentrate on the city of Paris. His principal customers were the architects and artisans who wanted examples of old architectural models; the libraries and archives that wished to preserve a record of “Old Paris”; and the amateurs of the ancient city who deplored the modernization projects of Napoleon III and his agent, Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who had razed and rebuilt much of Paris during the last half of the 19th century. Atget also sold his pictures to illustrators and independent painters, but these sales represented only a minor part of his income.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eugene-Atget

29/06/2021

Its been awhile but here is another Famous Photographer

Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for companies like Harper's ...

14/09/2020

Today My photographer is Thomas Annan (1829–1887) was a Scottish photographer, notable for being the first to record the bad housing conditions of the poor. He was born in Dairsie Fife and was one of seven children. His father was John Annan a flax spinner. Annan established himself in a photographic studio at Sauchiehall Street during 1857. 1866 Annan photographed slum areas of the city, these images were used by Glasgow City Improvement Trust, to document the overcrowded unhygienic conditions. It was this series of photographs, created between 1868 and 1871, entitled Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, that ensured his posperity. In 1869, Annan purchased the contents of Rock House, which belonged David Octavius Hill, which included many of Hill's photographs and negatives. These were eventually exhibited by Thomas' son, James Craig Annan.

27/08/2020

Gregory Colbert is a Canadian photographer and filmmaker. born in 1960. He’s the author of “Ashes & Snow”, a series of photographs, documentary films and soundscapes with a distinctive art style that depict the human-animal bond in a harmonic way. "I have been tusked by an elephant, almost eaten by a s***m whale, knocked off my feet by a rhinoceros, embraced by a jaguar, given a haircut by a tiger shark, chased by a hippo and a black mamba, brought to my knees by malaria and Dengue… but I was able to avoid the greatest danger of all. Never stop exploring the things that open you, or that you love". Colbert was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1960. He began his career in Paris in 1983 making documentary films on social issues. His first exhibition, Time waves, opened to wide critical acclaim in 1992 at the Museum of Elysée in Switzerland. For the next ten years, Colbert went off the grid and did not publicly share his art or show any films. He began traveling the world to photograph and film wondrous interactions between animals and humans.

22/07/2020

I know it has been a while since we have looked at a famous photographer. Today we are looking at Ethan Russel, was born November 26th, 1945 in Mt. Kisco, New York, and moved to San Francisco in the early 1950s. The multi Grammy-nominated photographer, author, and director is the only photographer to have shot album covers for The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who. Russell was barely established when he took his first pictures of Mick Jagger; he became one of the foremost rock photographers in the world only a few years later.

28/03/2020

Guess who is number one photographer in the world, you will know him when you see his well known photograph. His name, Steve McCurry, Born in 1950 in Philadelphia, McCurry is a renowned photojournalist from America. When he began taking photos for The Daily Collegian, a newspaper for the Penn State, McCurry developed an interest in photography.

He had a goal to study filmmaking and cinematography, he got a degree in theatre art and graduated in 1974.
Steve McCurry kept covering armed battle including Lebanon Civil War, the Afghan Civil War, the Gulf War, the Cambodian Civil War, the Iran-Iraq War, and the Islamic Insurgence in the Philippines.
The launch of his career occurred when he disguised as a native person and entered Afghanistan through Pakistan right before the Soviet Invasion was to happen.
McCurry has received many award between 1980 and 2011 including Magazine Photographer of the Year award by National Press Photographers Association in 1984, Award of Excellence: Spanish Gypsy by White House News Photographers Association in 1990, the Special Recognition Award by the United Nations International Photographic Council in 2002, Leica Hall of Fame Award by St.Moritz in Switzerland in 2011 and many more. In 2006, he received two Honorary Fellowships, one by the Royal Photography Society of Great Britain and the other by New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography.
https://www.famousphotographers.net/steve-mccurry

27/03/2020

William Eugene Smith, by name Gene Smith, (born December 20, 1918, Wichita, Kansas, U.S.—died October 15, 1978, Tucson, Arizona). American photojournalist noted for his compelling photo-essays, showing a strong sense of empathy and social conscience. At age 14 Smith began to use photography to aid his aeronautical studies, and within a year he had become a photographer for two local newspapers. He left college after one year to go to New York City. In 1942 Smith became a war correspondent for Life magazine and covered many of the most important battles of the Pacific, including Tarawa, Saipan, Guam, and Iwo Jima. Smith’s last photo-essay, was Minamata (1975), Its about the residents of a Japanese fishing village. They suffered poisoning and gross disfigurement from the mercury wastes of a nearby chemical company. While photographing this project he was severely beaten by several local factory workers who did not like what he was learning and photographing. That was the last he did stories. I have the one of his grandchildren walking along the garden path.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-Eugene-Smith

26/03/2020

Today's Famous Photographer is Annie Leibovitz, a portrait photographer in 1970, Annie landed a job at Rolling Stone and went on to create a distinctive look for the publication as chief photographer. In 1983, she began working for the entertainment magazine Vanity Fair, continuing to produce images that would be deemed iconic and provocative. Anna-Lou Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. One of my favorite things to do is to photograph portraits. I love this woman's portraits she inspires me.
https://www.biography.com/artist/annie-leibovitz

08/02/2020

Francesca Woodman (American, 1958–1981) was an American photographer known for her black-and-white self-portraits and images of other female models. Woodman unfortunately committed su***de at the age of 22. In her short life she produced over 800 prints
Most of Woodman works are untitled, and her works are known by their date and location.
Woodman’s photographs often depict n**e women and blurred images, where figures merge with their surroundings and faces are obscured. Among Woodman’s most well-known photos is Polka Dots (1976), in which she appears crouched beside a crumbling wall, her patterned dress split at the seam.
Woodman was born on April 3, 1958, in Denver, CO, and her parents were the artists George Woodman and Betty Woodman. She attended a private boarding school, and it was there where she began developing her interest in photography. You read more of this photographer
http://www.artnet.com/artists/francesca-woodman/biography