21. ARBUS, Diane

Born in 1923, Diane Nemerov grew up in a wealthy family in New York City and was educated at the Ethical Culture School, a progressive institution. At 18 she married Allan Arbus and began taking photographs. Asked by her father to produce some advertising images for his fashionable Fifth Avenue store, the couple began collaborating, with Diane as stylist and Allan as the photographer. This led, eventually, to them working for most of the major American fashion magazines.
From 1957 she studied under Austrian/American photographer Lisette Model who, more then anyone else, encouraged her to concentrate on her more personal pictures. Soon after, she began to devote herself fully to documentary work, receiving Guggenheim Fellowships in 1963 and 1966 to continue with this.

Before her suicide in 1971 she had already become a serious influence to photographers of the younger generation, and there have since been three book of her work published. "Diane Arbus - An Aperture Monograph" (1972) is a memoir of images designed by her daughter, Doon Arbus, celebrating her career and style and individuality; "Magazine Work" (1984) exhibits lesser known commercial works including pictures for Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, and The Sunday Times Magazine for London; "Untitled" (1995) is the only book devoted to solely one project, photographs taken at unknown residences for mentally handicapped people between 1969 and 1971.

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20. ARAKI, Nobuyoshi

Nobuyoshi Araki worked for almost 10 years as an advertising photographer before quitting to spend more time on his own work in 1972. His work is largely about Tokyo and in particular about women in Tokyo, and is perhaps a diary of his life and the things that interest him visually.

One of his photographic obsessions is clearly women, and he has worked extensively photographing prostitutes and bar girls at work as well as publishing more personal documents such as a record of his honeymoon. His work has brought him into conflict with the Japanese censors.

Despite its occaionally shocking nature, Araki's work shows a rare gift of seeing things in a new way and is difficult to put down.





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19. APPELT, Dieter

Ohr

Appelt has been a Professor of Photography, Film and Video at the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin since 1982. He studied photography at the Academy of Fine Art in Berlin as well as music at Leipzig and Berlin Music Academies. Appelt's work of the late 70's & 80's was typically related to performance art and often incorporated a level of sculptural construction. He began photographing to record his performance in outdoor settings -for some of these performances he built structures out of branches and positioned himself within the construct - a tower roughly crafted of tree branches, a slab cut into the ice, and mud as a protective yet primal second skin. Duration and decay are persistent themes in Appelt's photographs. He often uses exposures that are hours long in an attempt to record the effects of the passage of time.





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18. ANNAN, James Craig

The introducer into Britain of the fine art of photogravure is son of a late member of the well-known firm of photographers of which he is now a partner. He was born at Hamilton in 1864, educated at Hamilton Academy and Anderson's College, Glasgow, and took to photography by a natural process of heredity. In 1883 he went to Vienna to learn the new and then secret process of photogravure, and was the first to practise the art in this country. At the first exhibition of the Photographic Salon in 1893 he shewed some of his work, and as a result was forthwith elected a member of the select international body of artistic photographers known as the Linked Ring. Since then he has, by special invitation, exhibited in nearly every country in Europe, as well as in America. In 1900 the Royal Photographic Society decided to hold a series of "one man shows" in their new rooms in Russell Square, London, and they invited him to furnish the material for the first of the series, which he did. In 1904 he was appointed, along with Sir William Abney, K.C.B., by the Royal Commission for the St. Louis Exhibition, to represent this country on the International Jury for Photography, Photo-process, and Photo-appliances. To Mr. Annan's artistic taste and technical skill is to be attributed much of the beauty of many volumes issued by his own and other firms, which have effected so signal a revolution in the whole art of book illustration within the last twenty years.


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17. ANDRIESSE, Emmy

Arnemuiden Walcheren, Zeeland
1951

Emmy Andriesse (1914-1953) trained at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague under the pioneers of the "New Photography", Gerrit Kiljan and Paul Schuitema. The work she shot in Amsterdam and in Arnhem during and shortly after the Second World War now form part of the Dutch collective memory. They owe their fame not only to their documentary value but to Andriesse's speical talent for fusing social commitment with a feeling for the poetic powers of the medium. Her fashion, reportage, portrait and landscape photographs were published in numerous newspapers and magazines. She produced a magnificent series of artist's portraits for Willem Sandberg, the Director of the Stedelijk Museum, and shortly before her death she completed a photographic tribute to Vincent van Gogh. (Nijhof & Lee)




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16. ALVAREZ BRAVO, Manuel

Frida Kahlo
1930

A self-taught photographer, Manuel Alvarez Bravo purchased his first camera at age twenty while working at a government job. His earliest success at photography came around 1925, when he won first prize in a local photographic competition in Oaxaca. He returned to Mexico City, where he had been born, and in 1927 met Tina Modotti, who introduced him to a lively intellectual and cultural environment of other artists from various disciplines. Among them was Edward Weston, who encouraged Alvarez Bravo to continue photographing; Weston wrote to him in 1929: "Photography is fortunate in having someone with your viewpoint. It is not often I am stimulated to enthusiasm over a group of photographs."

Alvarez Bravo taught photography at the San Carlos Academy in the late 1930s, documented the work of Mexican mural painters including Diego Rivera, and contributed images to the journal Mexican Folkways . His primary subject interests have ranged from the nude form to folk art, particularly burial rituals and decorations. (Getty Museum)



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15. ALPERT, Max

Viktor Kalmikov has arrived
1929

Max Alpert (Russian, 1899-1980)

Max Alpert moved to Moscow after three years in the Red Army and began a career working for state publications. In 1929, he photographed the construction of a steelworks plant in Magnitogaisk, resulting in "Giant and Builder," his series on the life of steelworker Viktor Kolmykow. Alpert helped produce "Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of the Filippov Family," a photography exhibition that toured Vienna, Prague, and Berlin in 1931. From 1941 to 1945, Alpert was a war correspondent and photographer at the Russian Front for the TASS news agency. His works show an intuitive eye for design and human events beyond their propagandistic purpose. -
- Anne Strader

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13. ALLARD, William Albert

Henry Gray, Arizona
(1970)

Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Allard joined the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC staff in 1964. He left to freelance in 1967 and rejoined the staff in 1996. During that time he has shot dozens of stories. His photographs of places from Peru to Sicily appear in Visions Gallery: High Noon. Allard’s photographs have been published in many U.S. and European publications. He has also published four books. When not on assignment, he resides near Charlottesville, Virginia, with his family. (National Geographic.com)



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12. ALINARI, Vittorio

Vittorio Alinari (1859-1932) was an Italian photographer. His father, Leopoldo Alinari, founded a photographic company in 1854 and his brothers, Giuseppe and Romualdo, soon became partners in the firm, which was known for its specialty of documenting masterpieces of art. In 1892 Vittorio took over the firm and shifted the emphasis to Italian documentary photography. His work is known for careful composition, frequent use of frontal perspective, and the large plate (approximately 21cm x 27cm) format he used until the 1920s. (Wikipedia)



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11. AIGNER, Lucien

Winston Churchill re-elected to Parliament
Epping 1959

Lucien Aigner (September 14, 1901-March 29, 1999), was a Hungarian photographer.

Aigner's first camera. a Brownie, was acquired at age nine and was used to photograph his family. By 1926, Aigner was a reporter for Az Est, the Hungarian newspaper group, and soon became a photographer with them. During this time, Aigner became a Leica user.

As the Paris correspondent of the London General Press at the Stresa Conference of 1935, Aigner photographed Benito Mussolini, who was about to sneeze as the picture was taken. The photo made the cover of Newsweek in 1940, and established Aigner as an important photojournalist. In 1941 he emigrated from France to the United States to escape Nazi persecution.

Aigner then spent time at Princeton University taking photographs of Albert Einstein. The photos of Einstein are among Aigner's most famous, and were reportedly Einstein's favorite photos of himself. (Wikipedia)

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