Photography, as it is traditionally exercised, is expected to deliver what we see in front of our eyes, with its raw, truthful reality. The abstracting of photography is one of the later and less common practices of the medium. Ion Zupcu, however, is committed to making photographs that walk the knife’s edge between abstraction and figuration.
Simple Pleasures: The Language of Patterns “We find beauty not in the thing itself but…
Few photographers have a richer or more diverse legacy than Irving Penn (1917-2009.) He is considered one of the principal photographers of the 20th century.
A mystic aura of dreams and memories surrounds the poetically composed photographs of Bernard Faucon. Considered one of the pioneers of staged photography, Bernard Faucon was one of the first names to master the idea of the constructed image
On August 22, 2021, in Dyersville, Iowa, the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox played the state’s first Major League Baseball game on a specially built field right next to the original Field of Dreams.
As we look at the work of photographers Clive Arrowsmith and Gered Mankowitz, working from two various aesthetics and periods, both photographers captured the iconic British musician, Kate Bush, during the prime moments of her most inventive periods.
One unforgettable name that has remained iconic for decades is that of Marilyn Monroe. Monroe became a household name and one of the most recognizable faces worldwide, representing the ultimate platinum bombshell, oozing sensuality, a mysterious aura, strength, and vulnerability at a time in history when cinema was at its peak of influence.
A turbaned coal worker with a pickax on one shoulder stares directly into the camera on the cover of Sebastião Salgado’s 400 page, extraordinary book titled, Workers: An Archeology of the Industrial Age.
Arthur Rothstein, born in 1915 in New York City, is recognized as one of America’s premier photojournalists of the 20th century. Throughout a career that spans five decades, he has produced notable photographs focusing on the farming communities in the Midwestern Dust Bowl during the Great Depression, which are considered to be some of the best known photographs of the Depression Era.