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Ansel Adams is widely regarded as one of the most famous photographers of all time, particularly in reference to his striking images of the American wilderness. Adams placed great value upon technical mastery of his craft, carefully evaluating gradations of light in the image, manipulating degree of exposure, and constantly experimenting with new techniques. Along with contemporaries Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston, Adams founded the group f/64, devoted to what they termed "straight photography," as opposed to staged or embellished images. Adams was also pivotal in the establishment of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art.
Ansel Adams (1902-1984) was born in San Francisco four years before the great earthquake of 1906. An aftershock of the earthquake threw him to the ground, breaking his nose and marking him for life. Adams first visited Yosemite in 1916 -- only two years after John Muir's death and three months before the founding of the National Park Service -- and was transfixed by the beautiful valley. In 1919, at age 17, he had his first contact with the Sierra Club when he took a job as custodian of the Club's LeConte Memorial Lodge, the Club headquarters in Yosemite National Park.
Adams's interest in photography grew and often brought him up to the mountains accompanied by a mule laden with photographic gear and supplies. He became known as both an artist and defender of Yosemite. In 1934, Adams was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the Sierra Club, a role he maintained for 37 years
In 1968 Adams was awarded the Conservation Service Award, the Interior Department's highest civilian honor, "in recognition of your many years of distinguished work as a photographer, artist, interpreter and conservationist, a role in which your efforts have been of profound importance in the conservation of our great natural resources." In 1980 Adams received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for "his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both on film and on earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a national institution."- Additional Crew
Berenice Abbott was born on 17 July 1898 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. She is known for Paris Was a Woman (1996), Berenice Abbott: A View of the 20th Century (1992) and The 51st State (1972). She died on 9 December 1991 in Monson, Maine, USA.- Additional Crew
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Richard Avedon was born on 15 May 1923 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director, known for Funny Face (1957), Chanel No. 5: Tomorrow's Woman (1966) and Gilda Live (1980). He was married to Evelyn Franklin and Doe Avedon. He died on 1 October 2004 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.- Additional Crew
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Bruno Barbey was born on 13 February 1941 in Berrechid, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Berrechid, Morocco]. He was a cinematographer, known for The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963), The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015) and Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018). He was married to Caroline Thiénot Barbey. He died on 9 November 2020 in Orbais-l'Abbaye, Marne, France.- Additional Crew
Horst Baumann is known for Medal of Honor: Vanguard (2007), Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (2003) and Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII (2003).- Costume Designer
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Cecil Beaton was born on 14 January 1904 in London, England, UK. He was a costume designer, known for My Fair Lady (1964), Gigi (1958) and Anna Karenina (1948). He died on 18 January 1980 in Broadchalke, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK.- Gianni Berengo Gardin was born on 10 October 1930 in Santa Margherita Ligure, Genoa, Liguria, Italy.
- Ferenc Berkó is known for Zárás (1999).
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Werner Bischof is known for Proxima-B (2018) and Der gute Mensch von Sezuan (1966).- Art Department
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A. Aubrey Bodine is known for Wedding Crashers (2005) and Chesapeake Beacons (2020).- Camera and Electrical Department
Margaret Bourke-White was born on 14 June 1904 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. She is known for American Playhouse (1980), Of All Things (1956) and The Sam Levenson Show (1951). She was married to Erskine Caldwell and Everett Chapman. She died on 27 August 1971 in Darien, Connecticut, USA.- Bill Brandt was born on 3 May 1904 in Hamburg, Germany. He was married to Dorothy Anne Leznover, Szikra Boros and Eva Szerena Maria von Zelenei Szikra Boros. He died on 20 December 1983 in London, England, UK.
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Brassaï was born on 9 September 1899 in Brasow, Hungary. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Tant qu'il y aura des bêtes (1956), Paris sous la lune (1967) and The Henry Miller Odyssey (1969). He was married to Gilberte Boyer. He died on 8 July 1984 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, France.- Camera and Electrical Department
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Robert Capa was born on 22 October 1913 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a cinematographer, known for Temptation (1946), Paris Cavalcade of Fashions (1948) and The 400 Million (1939). He died on 25 May 1954 in Thai Binh, Vietnam.- Director
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Henri Cartier-Bresson was born on 22 August 1908 in Chanteloup-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Rules of the Game (1939), L'Espagne vivra (1939) and Life Is Ours (1936). He was married to Martine Franck and Ratna (Elie) Mohini. He died on 2 August 2004 in l'Ile-sur-Sorgue, Vaucluse, France.- Additional Crew
Ralph Crane is known for This Is Francis X. Bushman (2021) and Poen (1967).- Louise Dahl-Wolfe was born on 19 November 1895 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was married to Meyer Wolfe. She died on 11 December 1989 in New Jersey, USA.
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Loomis Dean is known for Best Ever Bond (2002), The Real... (1998) and Inspiring America: The 2022 Inspiration List (2022).- Camera and Electrical Department
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Robert Doisneau was born on 14 April 1912 in Gentilly, Seine [now Val-de-Marne, Île-de-France], France. He is known for Who Gets to Call It Art? (2006), Francis Cabrel: Il faudra leur dire (1986) and 3 Jours, 3 Photographes (1979). He was married to Pierrette Chaumaison. He died on 1 April 1994 in Paris, France.- Alfred Eisenstaedt was born on 6 December 1898 in Dirschau, West Prussia, Germany. He was married to Kathy Kaye. He died on 23 August 1995 in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, USA.
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Eliot Elisofon was born on 17 April 1911 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Khartoum (1966), Bell Book and Candle (1958) and Moulin Rouge (1952). He was married to Joan Baker Spear and Mavis Lyons. He died on 7 April 1973.- Hugo Erfurth is known for Charlotte Perriand: Pioneer in the Art of Living (2019).
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Walker Evans was born on 3 November 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Travel Notes (1932), Agee (1980) and Kentler Ve Gölgeler (2010). He was married to Isabelle Böschenstein von Steiger and Jane Smith Ninas. He died on 10 April 1975 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.- Director
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Fan Ho was born on 8 October 1931 in Shanghai, China. He was a director and actor, known for Ta Bei wu ai (1980), Ye ji qing (1989) and Hua jie (1982). He died on 19 June 2016 in San Jose, California, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
Andreas Feininger is known for Television Theater (1953).- Editorial Department
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Marc Ferrez is known for Triunfo de Nero (1907), Revolta da Chibata (1912) and Nhô Anastácio Chegou de Viagem (1908).- Director
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Robert Frank was born on 9 November 1924 in Zurich, Switzerland. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Me and My Brother (1968), Candy Mountain (1987) and The Present (1996). He was married to June Leaf and Mary Frank. He died on 9 September 2019 in Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada.- Producer
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An east coast native and theater actor/director, Friedlander moved to LA and was a natural producer bringing to fruition over a dozen independent films. In 2008 she directed the award-winning short, The Ten Rules: A Lesbian Survival Guie which formed the basis of the Logo/MTV/Viacom television series Exes & Ohs, a half-hour single camera comedy about lesbian dating. Lee co-created, executive produced and directed the pilot, which aired for two seasons and was nominated for several GLAAD Awards.
Lee has worked extensively in the television long-form world, including directing four Lifetime films-Babysitters Black Book, Double Daddy, A Giftwrapped Christmas,and Killer Coach. She is a go-to director/writer for cable force The Hallmark Channel. She executive produced Snow Bride and Ice Sculpture Christmas. She co-wrote and directed, All For Love, starring Sara Rue and Switched For Christmas based on her original idea starring Candace Cameron Bure who plays twins, and featuring Avril Lavigne's cover of Baby It's Cold Outside. 'Switched' aired Thanksgiving weekend 2017 and reached 7.3 million unduplicated viewers - the largest unduplicated audience for any Hallmark Channel telecast EVER in network history. She has continued on to direct Love Of Course, Sailing Into Love and Royally Ever After for Hallmark Channel.
Lee has also directed Avril Lavigne's Give You What You Like Music video in conjunction with Babysitter's Black Book, and collaborated on Avril's most recent Warrior Video. Most recently Lee directed two episodes of NBC's hit dramedy Good Girls, starring Christina Hendricks (Mad Men). She will be directing upcoming episodes of New Amsterdam and The Good Doctor. In addition, she has just been tapped to write and direct two more features for Hallmark.- Animation Department
Henry B. Groskinsky is known for Strawberry Shortcake (1980), The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree (1979) and The Berenstain Bears' Comic Valentine (1982).- Camera and Electrical Department
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Ernst Haas was born on 2 March 1921 in Vienna, Austria. He was a director and writer, known for Quest for Fire (1981), The Believers (1987) and Heaven's Gate (1980). He died on 12 September 1986 in New York City, New York, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
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Philippe Halsman was born on 2 May 1906 in Riga, Russian Empire [now Latvia]. He is known for John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988), Love, Marilyn (2012) and The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965). He was married to Yvonne Moser. He died on 25 June 1979 in New York City, New York, USA.- Additional Crew
One of the greatest photographers of all time Yousuf Karsh arrived in Canada as an Armenian refugee from the Turkish Ottoman Empire which perpetrated the Armenian genocide. In 1928 Karsh apprenticed with photographer John Garo in Boston then returned to Canada where Prime Minister Mackenzie King helped him photograph the visiting diplomats. In 1941 Karsh took the legendary portrait of Winston Churchill -- one of the most reproduced images in history.
The photographic subjects of Karsh (Armenian name Hovsep Karshian) included Pablo Picasso, Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, Queen Elizabeth II, Clark Gable, Audrey Hepburn, Pope John Paul II, Grace Kelly, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Sophia Loren, Laurence Olivier, George Bernard Shaw, Andy Warhol, Frank Lloyd Wright, Humphrey Bogart, Mother Theresa, Walt Disney, Mohammed Ali, Martin Luther King and many more.
Karsh was named one of the 100 Most Notable People of the Century in 2000 by International Who's Who and Karsh had photographed 51 of those 100. Karsh was also the only Armenian, the only Canadian, and the only photographer to make the list.
Karsh died at age 93 on July 13th, 2002 in Boston.
His awards include: Medal of Service of the Order of Canada and the Centennial Medal (1968), Medal of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1975), Achievement of Life Award of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1980), Companion of the Order of Canada (1990), Gold Medal of Merit of the National Society of Arts and Letters, USA (1991).
Karsh's 100th anniversary was marked by the release of 3 postal stamps with photographs Karsh took of Winston Churchill, Audrey Hepburn, and of himself.- Gyorgy Kepes was born on 4 October 1906 in Selyp, Hungary. He died on 29 December 2001 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
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Andre Kertesz was born on 2 July 1894 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He is known for Neil Diamond: Love at the Greek (1977), Camera Three (1955) and Another Way of Telling (1989). He was married to Elizabet Sali and Rozsa Klein. He died on 28 September 1985 in New York City, New York, USA.- Art Department
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Dorothea Lange was born on May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Educated at Columbia University, learned photography in New York, moved to San Francisco, and with the onset of the the Great Depression, became one of the most famous and influential documentary photographers, best known for her Farm Security Administration photographs of the migrant farm workers in California. One of those photographs, known as "Migrant Mother" is perhaps the most iconic photograph of that era. During World War II she documented the internment of Japanese Americans. In the 1940s she taught at the California School of Fine Arts. In 1952 she co-founded the photo magazine, "Aperture."- Actor
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Jacques Henri Lartigue was born on 13 June 1894 in Courbevoie, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. He was an actor, known for Ginger & Fred (1986), Passé sous silence (2000) and Antenne 2 Midi (1979). He was married to Florette Orméa, Marcelle "Coco" Paolucci and Madeleine "Bibi" Messager. He died on 12 September 1986 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.- Actor
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Arthur Leipzig is known for Trump: An American Dream (2017).- Camera and Electrical Department
Guido Mangold is known for Bahnhof der Schmetterlinge (2023), MTW - Menschen Technik Wissenschaft (1975) and 10vor10 (1990).- Cinematographer
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José Medeiros was born in 1921 in Teresina, Piauí, Brazil. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Parceiros da Aventura (1980), A Rainha Diaba (1974) and O Seminarista (1977). He died in 1990 in Italy.- Camera and Electrical Department
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Gjon Mili was born on 28 November 1904 in Korçë, Albania. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Improvisation (1950), Jammin' the Blues (1944) and Stompin' for Mili (1954). He died on 14 February 1984 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.- Director
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Shortly after he left the military in 1918 he decided to become an artist and he adopted the surname Moholy-Nagy. He moved to Berlin in the spring of 1920, where he was actively involved in the art scene. Besides paintings, drawings, and sculptures, he also began to create photograms, photographic images made without a camera, as well as camera photographs. From 1923 to 1928 he taught at the Bauhaus design school in Weimar and Dessau. In 1928 he moved back to Berlin where he began to make short silent b/w films. He took up color photography when he moved to Holland in 1934. The following year he moved to London. Alexander Korda of London Films asked him to design the special effects for Things to Come, which were not used in the film after all. He moved to Chicago in 1937 to direct a design school. When that closed, Moholy-Nagy opened his own school based on Bauhaus principles, the School of Design in Chicago. In 1944 it was reorganized and renamed The Institute of Design and is now a department of the Illinois Institute of Technology. During his years in Chicago he produced books, art, photograms, b/w and color camera photographs, and short color films. In 1945 he was diagnosed with leukemia and died the following year at the age of 51.- Additional Crew
Ugo Mulas was born on 28 August 1928 in Pozzolengo, Lombardy, Italy. Ugo is known for Who Gets to Call It Art? (2006), Agnelli (2017) and Christo & Jeanne Claude - L'art de cacher, l'art de dévoiler (2021). Ugo died on 2 March 1973 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.- Actor
Nadar is known for Tusk (1980).- Additional Crew
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Arnold Newman was born on 3 March 1918 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe (2007), Who Gets to Call It Art? (2006) and Anne Frank Remembered (1995). He died on 6 June 2006 in New York City, New York, USA.- Director
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Helmut Newton was born on 31 October 1920 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director, known for Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), The King of Ads (1991) and Chanel No. 5: Mystery (1977). He was married to June Newton. He died on 23 January 2004 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
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Ruth Orkin was born on 3 September 1921 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She was a writer and director, known for Little Fugitive (1953), Lovers and Lollipops (1956) and Something's Gotta Give (2003). She was married to Morris Engel. She died on 16 January 1985 in New York City, New York, USA.- Additional Crew
Irving Penn was born on 16 June 1917 in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA. Irving is known for Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider (1994), Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe (2007) and The Miles Davis Story (2001). Irving was married to Lisa Fonssagrives. Irving died on 7 October 2009 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Albert Renger-Patzsch is known for Kunst und Kalkül - Der ganze Nolde (2021).
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American painter and artist in various media who participated in a few films. He helped found the Dada movement and was the prime American participant in the Surrealist movement. An American expatriate to Paris in the 1920s, he was a member of the so-called "Lost Generation" of creative minds associated with that time and place. His art encompassed not only painting but photography and collage. He acted for René Clair in one film and was assistant director to Marcel Duchamp on another. He directed a few films of a surrealist nature in the 1920s.- Art Director
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko (Alexander Rodchenko) was born on December 5, 1891, in St. Petersburg, Russia. His father, named Mikhail Mikhailovich Rodchenko, was a theatre designer. His mother, named Olga Evdokimovna, was a laundress. From 1908-1910 Rodchenko was a dental technician at Dental School of Dr. Natanson. From 1910-1914 he studied art at the Kazan School of Art under Nikolai Fechin, then at the Stroganov Art Institute in Moscow.
Rodchenko experienced the influence of Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, Wassily Kandinsky, and other artists working in abstract style. He was the pupil and assistant of Vladimir Tatlin, and his work was initially influenced by Cubism, then Cubo-Futurism. His early drawings and paintings followed the developments of Suprematism and Futurism. He worked with a wide variety of media as a decorator, furniture and theatre designer, printer, painter, sculptor, and photographer. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Rodchenko joined the Bolsheviks. He believed in new opportunities for art and became active in many applications of art, illustration, commercial designs, and photography. In 1921 Rodchenko replaced Wassily Kandinsky as Chairman of State Institute of Artistic Culture (INKHUK) and Chairman of Museum Bureau and Russian State Art Acquisitions Commission. In 1921 he co-wrote the Constructivist's Manifesto. He collaborated with writer and actor Vladimir Mayakovsky, director Vsevolod Meyerhold, composer Dmitri Shostakovich, filmmaker Dziga Vertov, and many others. From 1923-1928 he collaborated with Osip Brik in the Left Front of Art (LEF). In 1925 Rodchenko won four silver medals at Paris International Exhibition.
Alexander Rodchenko became one of the founders of Constructivism and Productivism in Russia. His innovations revolutionized the art of still photography. He used his camera as if it was a drawing instrument. He mastered the use of photo-montage, odd angles, wide frames, and photo-series. His way of photographing from unusual and obscured viewpoints, exploring the potential of shadows, opened new dimensions in photo-art. Rodchenko shot his subjects from high above or below angles, to shock the viewer and to postpone recognition. He made important photo-portraits of actress Lilya Brik, writer Osip Brik, actor Vladimir Mayakovsky, director Vsevolod Meyerhold, director Dziga Vertov, director Aleksandr Dovzhenko, and other Russian culture luminaries. He also organized many photography exhibitions. Rodchenko was the art director in several Soviet-made films. His most innovative and interesting work was his graphic design and montage works for advertisements and movie posters, which was his major contribution to film-poster art. His posters for such films as 'Battleship Potemkin' (1925), 'Kinoglaz' (1924), and other works, are regarded among the highest achievements in film-poster art.
In 1928 Rodchenko wrote a manifesto titled "Against the Synthaetic Portrait, For the Snapshot" in which he argues for the documentary objectivity of photography. "Snapshots allow no one to idealize or falsify Lenin", wrote Rodchenko. He was soon attacked by Stalinists and was accused of supporting Trotsky and his ideas. His exhibitions were canceled, he was dismissed from major projects and jobs. For many years he was deprived of livelihood. That caused him a depression, high blood pressure, and other health problems. Rodchenko was officially charged with "bourgeois formalism" and his photography was censored and banned from public shows. However, from 1934-1938, he was commissioned to make several photo-albums for Soviet propaganda, such as: "Belomor-kanal imeni Stalina" and "Krasnaya Armia" (Red Army 1938). Rodchenko made a beatiful job, but remained under suspicion during many years of the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin.
Alexander Rodchenko was in opposition to Socialist realism. From the late 1930's to the end of his life he was forced to quit photography amidst the paranoia of Stalinist censorship. He returned to painting sporadically after 1942, made a series of abstract decorative compositions, but his art was ostracized. He lived in poverty and obscurity for the last twenty years of his life. Rodchenko was constantly harassed by officials for his art, his membership in the Union of Soviet Artists was canceled, and he was made an outcast. His membership was restored only in 1954, after the death of Stalin. Rodchenko died of a stroke on December 3, 1956, in Moscow, and was laid to rest in Donskoe Cemetery in Moscow, Russia.- George Rodger was born on 19 March 1908 in Hale, Cheshire, England, UK. He is known for Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro (2016), The Secret History of Our Streets (2012) and Windrush (1998). He was married to Jinx Rodger and Cicely Joan Hussey-Freke. He died on 24 July 1995 in Ashford, Kent, England, UK.
- Fulvio Roiter was born on 1 November 1926 in Meolo, Veneto, Italy. He died on 19 April 2016 in Venice, Veneto, Italy.
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Sebastião Salgado was born on 8 February 1944 in Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is a cinematographer, known for The Salt of the Earth (2014), A Grande Arte (1991) and En busca de la felicidad (1998).- Actress
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Growing up in Huntington, her father worked as an engineer and her mother worked as a teacher. As a child she discovered her penchant for dressing up and her preference for the bad guys she read. Later, while studying at the State University of New York at Buffalo, she developed her passion for art. After painting, Sherman began taking photographs. The "Hallwalls" exhibition was founded at this time. In 1975 and 1975 she created the photo series "Untitled A - D" and "Bus Riders". She graduated from college in 1976 and settled in New York. They represent her famous self-portraits, in which she slips into different roles through disguise and make-up and portrays different types of women. In particular, the "Untitled Film Stills" created between 1977 and 1980 made Sherman known as a photographer, self-director and disguise artist.
The photographic works in black and white show her as an actress. The artist wanted to draw attention to the role clichés of women - based on the films of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1995, the Museum of Modern Art paid more than a million dollars for it. With the photo series "History Portraits" Cindy Sherman turns to the role of women in the history of art. In real life she fills a dual role, being a model and photographer (artist) at the same time. The intentions of her works include not only the staging of one's own body, but also critical messages about identity, feminine role clichés, violence, sexuality, play and reality, ugliness and beauty, as well as the revelations of the topics addressed. Another thematic focus of her work relates to the image of the body, which she alienated for the first time in the series "Disasters" (1985 - 1989).
In these works, she herself is no longer the subject of her work, but rather a mix of repulsive materials such as prosthetic body parts or rotting food. They represent temporality and decay and are intended to evoke feelings of disgust in the viewer. For the artist, the grotesqueness of the body is based, among other things, on the alienation in the photography of models. Cindy Sherman was named one of the ten best living artists by ARTnews magazine. Today she still lives in New York. After two marriages to the video artist Michel Auder, she is dating the musician David Byrne. In 2008, a Sherman work fetched a record $2.85 million at a Christie's auction. In 2012, the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed a large-scale exhibition entitled "Cindy Sherman. A retrospective". Under the title "Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s from the Verbund Collection, Vienna", it was on view in 2016/17 at the Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe.
In 2016, Sherman was honored with the prestigious "Praemium Imperiale" and in 2019 she was awarded the Max Beckmann Prize. In the same year, 2019, her retrospective followed at the National Portrait Gallery (London).- Aaron Siskind was born on 4 December 1903 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1990), Aaron Siskind: Second Sight (1981) and Aaron Siskind: Making Pictures (1991). He died on 8 February 1991 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
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W. Eugene Smith was born on 30 December 1918 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. He was a writer, known for Minamata (2020), Camera Three (1955) and Objective Camera, Subjective Truth (1975). He was married to Aileen Sprague and Carmen. He died on 15 October 1978 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Edward Steichen was a key figure of twentieth-century photography, directing its development as a prominent photographer and influential curator. During World War I, he directed aerial photography for the Army Expeditionary Forces. He renounced painting shortly thereafter, along with the vestiges of Pictorialism, and adopted a modernist style. He served as chief photographer for Condé Nast from 1923 to 1938 while also doing freelance advertising work. Commissioned a lieutenant commander in 1942, Steichen became director of the U.S. Naval Photographic Institute in 1945; there he oversaw combat photography and organized the exhibitions Road to Victory and Power in the Pacific. He was director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art from 1947 to 1962, and was responsible for more than fifty shows, including The Family of Man in 1955, the most popular exhibition in the history of photography. Steichen received innumerable awards and honors, including Knighthood in the French Legion of Honor, an Honorary Fellowship in the Royal Photographic Society, the Distinguished Service Medal, the Art Directors Club of New York Award, U.S. Camera Achievement Award for "Most Outstanding Contribution to Photography by an Individual," (1949) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963).
- Alfred Stieglitz is undoubtedly one of the most significant contributors to the history of photography. He contributed not only scientific and artistic photographic studies, but also introduced modern art to America and furthered the theory of photography as art. Stieglitz was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on January 1, 1864.
The renowned photographer Stieglitz first studied photochemistry with Hermann Wilhelm Vogel at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin, from 1882-1886, and took his first photographs in 1883. He continued to travel and photograph in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland until 1890, when he returned to New York City. From 1890 to 1895 he was a partner in a photogravure firm. During this time he concentrated on photographing the streets of New York City. In 1894, Stieglitz travelled to Europe and was elected a member of the Linked Ring, a pictorialist society in London. In 1902, Stieglitz founded the Photo-Secession Movement which attempted to prove that pictorialist photography was a fine art form. From 1903 to 1917, Stieglitz was publisher and director of Camera Work magazine.
The graphic section was run by Edward Steichen (1879-1973). In 1905, Stieglitz opened the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession "291" on Fifth Avenue in New York City with Steichen. Along with the other original members, Gertrude Kasebier and Clarence H. White, they formulated their mission to secede from conventional expectations and explore the creative potential of photography from both a theoretical and scientific point of view. Needing space to gather, work and exhibit, the gallery was open to and exhibited such paintings by Cezanne, Picasso, Braque and Matisse. The gallery was also a gathering place for writers, philosophers and musicians.
Georgia O'Keeffe and Stieglitz began their relationship in 1917; she eventually became his wife. Over the next twenty years together, Stieglitz made more than 300 images of O'Keeffe.
Accomplished photographic scientist, photographer, gallery owner, art dealer, collector and writer, Stieglitz was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum in 1971. Throughout his life, until his death in 1946, he fought for the art and science of photography. A great, fearless fight. And if he were alive today he would still be fighting. Photography as a respected art form is still not accepted by some today. - Cinematographer
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Paul Strand was born on 16 October 1890 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Native Land (1942), Redes (1936) and The Live Wire (1925). He was married to Hazel Kingsbury, Virginia Stevens and Rebecca Salsbury. He died on 31 March 1976 in Orgeval, Yvelines, France.- Camera and Electrical Department
Christoph Von Wangenheim is known for Room 302 (2001).- Actor
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Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig was born on 12 June 1899 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Weegee's New York (2021), The Yellow Cab Man (1950) and The 'Imp'probable Mr. Wee Gee (1966). He was married to Wilma Wilcox and Margaret Atwood. He died on 26 December 1968 in New York City, New York, USA.- Edward Weston was born on 24 March 1886 in Highland Park, Illinois, USA. He was married to Charis Wilson and Flora May Chandler. He died on 1 January 1958 in Big Sur, California, USA.
- István Farkas is known for Képvadászok (1986).
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Arnold Genthe was born on 8 January 1869 in Berlin, Germany. He is known for Landmarks in 21st Century Architecture: Thom Mayne (2009). He died on 9 August 1942 in New York City, New York, USA.- Additional Crew
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Burt Glinn was born on 23 July 1925 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is known for American Masters (1985), American Experience (1987) and How Playboy Changed the World (2012). He was married to Elena Prohaska. He died on 9 April 2008 in Southampton, New York, USA.- Additional Crew
Kupka Frantisek is known for Tropos (2013).- Lennart Olsson is known for Svidande affärer (1991) and BingoLotto (1989).