Born in 1949, Annie Leibovitz rose to fame as one of the most influential photographers in American history, capturing the cultural revolution at its peak. Photos she took during college while living on a kibbutz in Israel and working to uncover the remains of King ...
Proving that Robert Capa's "Falling Soldier" is Genuine: A Detective Story When I began the research for my biography of Robert Capa, in 1980, one problem I inherited was that of dealing with an allegation of fakery regarding Capa's 1936 photograph of a Spanish Republican ...
"I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions." --Man Ray Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of American modernism. Known for documenting the cultural elite living ...
"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." --Richard Avedon What do Jean Genet, Jimmy Durante, Brigitte Bardot, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jacques Cousteau, Andy Warhol, and Lena Horne have in common? They were a few of the many personalities caught on film by photographer ...
Early in the twentieth century a new spirit appeared in American life... It was a spirit of change, of dissent--in some minds, the spirit even of revolution. Predominantly it was an upsurge of hopefulness. New directions seemed possible not only in politics and the arts, ...
Known for his extended study of Washington Square Park and his distorted nudes of the 1930s, Andre Kertesz was a quiet but important influence on the coming of age of photojournalism and the art of photography. For more than seventy years, his subtle and penetrating ...
