Philippe Halsman

 (1906 - 1979)
 

Philippe Halsman was an American portrait photographer. He was born in Riga in the part of the Russian Empire which later became Latvia, and died in New York City.  

He is famous for his work with Salvador Dalí and his jumping pictures. Halsman commented, "When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears." The photographer developed a philosophy of jump photography, which he called jumpology. He published Philippe Halsman's Jump Book in 1959, which contained a tongue-in-cheek discussion of jumpology and 178 photographs of celebrity jumpers. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Halsman

 

 Audrey hepburn Italy  1955

 Eliot Porter
 (1901 - 1990) 

Eliot Furness Porter was an American photographer best known for his color photographs of nature. An amateur photographer since childhood, Eliot Porter found early inspiration photographing the birds on Maine's Great Spruce Head Island owned by his family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Porter

Roadrunner, 1941

Peter Lindbergh

(1944 – 2019)
Peter Lindbergh (born Peter Brodbeck) was a German fashion photographer and film director.
He had studied arts in Berlin and Krefeld, and exhibited his works before graduation. In 1971, he turned to photography and worked for the Stern magazine.
In fashion photography, he portrayed models Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Tatjana Patitz, Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington together for the January 1990 British Vogue cover, beginning an era of supermodels. He photographed the Pirelli Calendar three times (1996, 2002, 2017), made several films, and created covers for music including Tina Turner's Foreign Affair, Sheryl Crow's The Globe Sessions and Beyoncé's I Am... Sasha Fierce.
His work has been presented at international exhibitions. Lindbergh preferred black & white photography, and noted in 2014: "This should be the responsibility of photographers today to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lindbergh

 

 Flying high, Linda Evangelista NY1992

 Guy Bourdin

 (1928 - 1991)
 

Guy Bourdin  was a French artist and fashion photographer known for his provocative images. From 1955, Bourdin worked mostly with Vogue as well as other publications including Harper's Bazaar. He shot ad campaigns for Chanel, Charles Jourdan, Pentax and Bloomingdale's.
His work is collected by important institutions including Tate in London, MoMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Getty Museum. The first retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 2003, and then toured the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, and the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris. The Tate is permanently exhibiting a part of its collection (one of the largest) with works made between 1950 and 1955.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Bourdin

 

 

Vogue Paris, February 1971

 

 Paul Strand

 (1890 - 1976) 

Paul Strand was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century.[1][2] In the 1930s, he helped found the Photo League. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe, and Africa. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Strand

 

Saltillo Landscape, 1932

 

Alfred Stieglitz

(1864 – 1946)
 

Alfred Stieglitz HonFRPS (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz was known for the New York art galleries that he ran in the early part of the 20th century, where he introduced many avant-garde European artists to the U.S. He was married to painter Georgia O'Keeffe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz

Paula, Sunlight and Shadows, 1889

Alfred Eisenstaedt

(1898 - 1995) 

Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He began his career in Germany prior to World War II but achieved prominence as a staff photographer for Life magazine after moving to the U.S. Life featured more than 90 of his pictures on its covers, and more than 2,500 of his photo stories were published.
Among his most famous cover photographs was V-J Day in Times Square, taken during the V-J Day celebration in New York City, showing an American sailor kissing a nurse in a "dancelike dip" which "summed up the euphoria many Americans felt as the war came to a close", in the words of his obituary. He was "renowned for his ability to capture memorable images of important people in the news" and for his candid photographs taken with a small 35mm Leica camera, typically with natural lighting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Eisenstaedt

U of Michigan drum-major, 1950

Diane Arbus

(1923 -1971)
 

Diane Arbus was an American photographer. Arbus's imagery helped to normalize marginalized groups and highlight the importance of proper representation of all people. She photographed a wide range of subjects including strippers, carnival performers, nudists, people with dwarfism, children, mothers, couples, elderly people, and middle-class families. She photographed her subjects in familiar settings: their homes, on the street, in the workplace, in the park. "She is noted for expanding notions of acceptable subject matter and violates canons of the appropriate distance between photographer and subject. By befriending, not objectifying her subjects, she was able to capture in her work a rare psychological intensity." In his 2003 New York Times Magazine article, "Arbus Reconsidered," Arthur Lubow states, "She was fascinated by people who were visibly creating their own identities—cross-dressers, nudists, sideshow performers, tattooed men, the nouveaux riches, the movie-star fans—and by those who were trapped in a uniform that no longer provided any security or comfort." Michael Kimmelman writes in his review of the exhibition Diane Arbus Revelations, that her work "transformed the art of photography (Arbus is everywhere, for better and worse, in the work of artists today who make photographs)".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Arbus

 

Child running in the park, N.Y.C., 1959.

 Margaret Bourke-White

(1904 - 1971)
 

Margaret Bourke-White an American photographer and documentary photographer, became arguably best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry under the Soviets' five-year plan, as the first American female war photojournalist, and for having one of her photographs (on the construction of Fort Peck Dam) on the cover of the first issue of Life magazine. She died of Parkinson's disease at age 67, about eighteen years after developing symptoms.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Bourke-White

Queue of black residents of Louisville KY waiting for distribution of relief supplies 

during the 1937 Ohio River flood

Mary Ellen Mark 

(1940-2015)  

  
Mary Ellen Mark (March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015) was an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were "away from mainstream society and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes".
Mark had 18 collections of her work published, most notably Streetwise and Ward 81.Her work was exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide and widely published in Life, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, New York Times, and Vanity Fair. She was a member of Magnum Photos between 1977 and 1981. She received numerous accolades, including three Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the 2014 Lifetime Achievement in Photography Award from the George Eastman House and the Outstanding Contribution Photography Award from the World Photography Organisation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Mark

 

    

 Marlon Brando on the set of Apocalypse Now. 1976

The image captures what was likely a rare moment of serenity during the film’s notoriously hellish production, sign of which can be seen in Brando’s dirty and exhausted appearance. The dragonfly seems to be providing a tether of sanity to Brando during a period in which the line between Kurtz, Brando’s character, and himself were beginning to blur.

Vivian Maier

(1926-2009)

Vivian Dorothy Maier was an American street photographer whose work was discovered and recognized after her death. She worked for about 40 years as a nanny, mostly in Chicago's North Shore, while pursuing photography. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people and architecture of Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles, although she also traveled and photographed worldwide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier

Selfportrait 1954

Brassai 

(1899-1984)
 

Brassaï (pseudonym of Gyula Halász) was a Hungarian–French photographer, sculptor, medalist, writer, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerous Hungarian artists who flourished in Paris beginning between the world wars. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassaï

 

 Stairs at Montmartre, Paris 1936

André Kertész

(1894-1985) 

André Kertész born Andor Kertész, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Kertész

 

 The Fork, Paris 1928

https://galeriejuliansander.de/artwork/the-fork/

 Robert Doisneau 

(1912-1994)

Robert Doisneau was a French photographer. From the 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Doisneau

 

 Les pains de Picasso- Vallauris- 1952

Robert Mapplethorpe

(1946 - 1989) 

Robert Michael Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images. His most controversial works documented and examined the gay male BDSM subculture of New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A 1989 exhibition of Mapplethorpe's work, titled Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, sparked a debate in the United States concerning both use of public funds for "obscene" artwork and the Constitutional limits of free speech in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe

Orchid, 1988

Imogen Cunningham 

 (1883-1976)
 

Imogen Cunningham was an American photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes. Cunningham was a member of the California-based Group f/64, known for its dedication to the sharp-focus rendition of simple subjects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imogen_Cunningham

Three Dancers, Mills College, 1929

Garry Winogrand 

(1928-1984) 

Garry Winogrand was an American street photographer, known for his portrayal of U.S. life and its social issues, in the mid-20th century. Photography curator, historian, and critic John Szarkowski called Winogrand the central photographer of his generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Winogrand

 

New York, ca. 1955

https://youtu.be/qmEj4bx-3XU

WeeGee

 (1899-1968)
 

Arthur (Usher) Fellig known by his pseudonym Weegee, was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography in New York City.
Weegee worked in Manhattan's Lower East Side as a press photographer during the 1930s and 1940s and developed his signature style by following the city's emergency services and documenting their activity. Much of his work depicted unflinchingly realistic scenes of urban life, crime, injury and death. Weegee published photographic books and also worked in cinema, initially making his own short films and later collaborating with film directors such as Jack Donohue and Stanley Kubrick.

Coney Island at noon Saturday, July 5, 1942

According to Miles Barth, co-author of the book Weegee's World, Coney Island was a bit off our lensman's beat. "When it came to warm weather, Weegee was the last person you could imagine in shorts and sneakers and a T-shirt," Barth told me. "It was against everything he understood. He was doing fires, floods, car wrecks, murders. What interested him was crime."
"Whatever it took to get the shot, Weegee did it," Barth says. "That was part of his genius." Barth has it from Louie Liotta, Weegee's longtime assistant, that the boss climbed up on a lifeguard station and screamed and danced until everybody started to look. "And when they did," says Barth, "he took the photograph. It was that simple."

Walker Evans
(1906-1975) 

Walker Evans was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8×10-inch (200×250 mm) view camera. He said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Evans
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/evan/hd_evan.htm

Fish Market Near Birmingham, Alabama, 1936

Gerda Taro

 (1910-1937)

Gerta Pohorylle known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German Jewish war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first woman photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war. 

 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda_Taro

militia-woman training on the beach. Outside Barcelona. August 1936.

Nat Farbman

 (1907-1911)

Nat Farbman was born in Poland and migrated to United States 1911. He was a photographer for LIFE magazine from 1946–61.
At the University of Santa Clara Farbman enrolled in electrical engineering. He became a photojournalist, commercial and fashion photographer.
He married Patsy (Pat) English, a model who became a photographer, in 1938. She had learned photography from Ansel Adams whom she met in 1936, modelling for him on commercial jobs. They produced a series of photographs of the Bechuanaland (now Botswana) bushmen tribes in 1947, six of which were used in The Family of Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Farbman

Bushman children, Botswana 1947

 Irving Penn 

(1917-2009)

Irving Penn was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the art of photography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Penn

Miles Davis, New York 1986
Photo session for the album Tutu.

W. Eugene Smith 

(1918-1978)

William Eugene Smith  was an American photojournalist. He has been described as "perhaps the single most important American photographer in the development of the editorial photo essay." His major photo essays include World War II photographs, the visual stories of an American country doctor and a nurse midwife, the clinic of Albert Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa, the city of Pittsburgh, and the pollution which damaged the health of the residents of Minamata in Japan. His 1948 series, Country Doctor, photographed for Life, is now recognized as "the first extended editorial photo story".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Eugene_Smith

 

The Walk to Paradise Garden. USA, 1946.

After being severely wounded in 1945 by Japanese mortar fire at Okinawa while covering World War II for LIFE magazine, W. Eugene Smith returned home to New York state for the long process of recuperation. He was unable to hold a camera properly or take photographs for another year. After multiple surgeries, his first attempt became iconic. Smith chose to photograph his two young children, Patrick and Juanita, scampering through the woods behind the house. The resulting image, entitled “The Walk to Paradise Garden,” became Smith’s most popular. Many have attributed its universal appeal to its perspective from behind, allowing viewers to imagine that Smith’s two children could be their own. Edward Steichen chose it as the final print in his landmark exhibition, The Family of Man, at the Museum of Modern Art in 1955. 

https://www.magnumphotos.com/shop/collections/collectors-prints/the-walk-to-paradise-garden-usa-1946/

 An addition to yesterday’s post:
In 2014, Jonathan Day  published a photo book that was based on The Americans by Robert Frank:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28571190-postcards-from-the-road

This was his take on the New Orleans trolley bus photo:

 Trolley, New Orleans

Robert Frank 

(1924-2019)

Robert Frank was a Swiss photographer and documentary filmmaker, who became an American binational. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society. Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said The Americans "changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it. [ ... ] it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century." Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and photomontage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frank

 

Trolley, New Orleans, 1955, from The Americans

 Richard Avedon 

 (1923-2004)
 Richard Avedon  was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Avedon

Dovima with Elephants
1955

Richard Avedon characterized his improvised approach to fashion photography as “a vacation from life.” Dovima with Elephants originally appeared in a 14-page story on Paris fashions published in the September 1955 issue of Harper’s Bazaar (where Avedon was staff photographer from 1946 to 1965). Avedon photographed the model known as Dovima (born Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba) in a studio and various Paris locations, including the Cirque d’Hiver, where this image was shot. He later recounted, “I saw the elephants under an enormous skylight… . I then had to find the right dress and I knew there was a potential here for a kind of dream image.” The dress chosen was in fact the first design for Dior by 19-year-old Yves Saint Laurent. In the photograph Dovima appears poised and fearless, her sinuous contours echoing those of the massive pachyderms she seems to command.

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/221681/dovima-with-elephants-evening-dress-by-dior-cirque-d-hiver-paris
 

 Edward Weston

(1886-1958)

Edward Henry Weston was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers..."[and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his 40-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still-lifes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies. It is said that he developed a "quintessentially American, and especially Californian, approach to modern photography" because of his focus on the people and places of the American West. In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 × 10 view camera. Some of his most famous photographs were taken of the trees and rocks at Point Lobos, California, near where he lived for many years.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Weston
https://edward-weston.com/

 

Juniper, Lake Tenaya  

1937

Robert Capa

(1913-1954)
Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann) was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist as well as the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taro. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa

https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/robert-capa/

 

 Sicilian peasant telling an American officer which way the Germans had gone. 

Near Troina. Italy. August, 1943

Henri Cartier-Bresson
(1908-2004)
 

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment.
Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947. In the 1970s he took up drawing—he had studied painting in the 1920s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson
https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/henri-cartier-bresso

 

 The Var department. Hyères, France. 1932.

Dorothea Lange
(1895 - 1965)

Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Lange
https://www.moma.org/artists/3373

A very blue eagle.
Along California highway, Nov. 1936

  Yousuf-Karsh

(1908 - 2002)

Yousuf Karsh CC was an Armenian-Canadian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yousuf_Karsh
https://karsh.org/a-life-in-images/#thumbnails

Albert Einstein
1948