EMMET.GOWIN
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"Emmet Gowin (born 1941 in Danville, Virginia) is an
American photographer. After graduating from Richmond Professional
Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University) in 1965, Gowin attended
the Rhode Island School of Design. While earning his MFA, Gowin studied
under influential American photographers Harry Callahan and Aaron
Siskind.
Gowin first gained attention with his intimate portraits of his wife
and family. His almost exclusive use of a large format camera led to
both optical and darkroom experiments. Using a 4×5 lens with an 8×10
camera allowed Gowin to expose the full image circle, surrounded by a
dramatic vignette, in his family portraits and rural landscapes.
Beginning with a trip to Washington state soon after
Mt. Saint Helens erupted, Gowin began taking aerial photographs. For the
next twenty years, Gowin captured strip mining sites, nuclear testing
fields, large-scale agricultural fields and other scars in the natural
landscape.
Gowin received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1979." **
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STEPHEN SHORE
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"Stephen Shore (born 1947 in New York City) is an
American photographer known for his deadpan images of banal scenes and
objects in the United States, and for his pioneering use of color in art
photography.
Stephen Shore was interested in photography from an
early age. Self-taught, he received a photographic darkroom kit at age
six from a forward-thinking uncle. He began to use a 35mm camera three
years later and made his first color photographs. At ten he received a
copy of Walker Evans's book, American Photographs, which influenced him
greatly. His career began at the early age of fourteen, when he made the
precocious move of presenting his photographs to Edward Steichen, then
curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Recognizing
Shore's talent, Steichen bought three of his works. At age seventeen,
Shore met Andy Warhol and began to frequent Warhol's studio, the
Factory, photographing Warhol and the creative people that surrounded
him. In 1971, at the age of 24, Shore became the second living
photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art." **
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MAGNUM PHOTOS
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"Magnum Photos is an international photographic
cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices located in
New York, Paris, London and Tokyo. According to co-founder Henri
Cartier-Bresson, "Magnum is a community of thought, a shared human
quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for
what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually."
War photographers Robert Capa, David "Chim" Seymour,
Henri Cartier-Bresson, and George Rodger founded Magnum in 1947,
responding to their World War II experiences. Magnum is one of the first
photographic cooperatives, owned and administered entirely by members.
The staff serve a support role for the photographers who retain all
copyrights to their own work.
The Magnum cooperative has included photojournalists
from across the world and has covered many historical events of the 20th
century. The cooperative's archive includes photographs depicting
family life, drugs, religion, war, poverty, famine, crime, government
and celebrities. Magnum In Motion is the multimedia offshoot of Magnum
Photos, based in New York City." **
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GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE
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"The photography collection includes more than
400,000 photographs and negatives dating from the invention of
photography to the present day. The collection embraces numerous
landmark processes, objects of great rarity, and monuments of art
history that trace the evolution of the medium as a technology, as a
means of scientific and historical documentation, and as one of the most
potent and accessible means of personal expression of the modern era.
More than 14,000 photographers are represented in the collection,
including virtually all the major figures in the history of the medium.
The collection includes original vintage works produced by nearly every
process and printing medium employed." **
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IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM
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"Imogen Cunningham was born and raised in the Pacific
Northwest. She began her photographic studies at the University of
Washington and went on to become one of photography's early pioneers and
commenced what became one of the longest photographic careers in the
history of the medium.
In the 1920's, Cunningham turned her attention to
artistic nudes of friends and family and the study of plant forms found
in her garden. The results are staggering; an amazing body of work
comprised of bold, contemporary forms.
Her refreshing, yet formal and sensitive floral images ultimately became her most acclaimed images.
Imogen established the Imogen Cunningham Trust to
manage her archives after her death. The Trust provides estate stamped
prints for exhibition and sale. All of the Trust prints that we offer
were printed by Imogen's son Rondal Partridge." *
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CHARLES SHEELER
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"Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 – May 7, 1965) is
recognized as one of the founders of American modernism and one of the
master photographers of the 20th century.
Born in Philadelphia, he attended the School of
Industrial Art in Philadelphia from 1900-1903, and then the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under William Merritt Chase. He
found early success as a painter and exhibited at the Macbeth Gallery in
1908.[1] In 1909, he went to Paris, just when the popularity of Cubism
was skyrocketing. Returning to the United States, he realized that he
would not be able to make a living with Modernist painting. Instead, he
took up commercial photography, focusing particularly on architectural
subjects. He was a self-taught photographer, learning his trade on a
five dollar Brownie.
Sheeler owned a farmhouse in Doylestown,
Pennsylvania, about 39 miles outside of Philadelphia. He shared it with
artist Morton Schamberg. He was so fond of the home's 19th century stove
that he called it his "companion" and made it a subject of his
photographs. The farmhouse serves a prominent role in many of his
photographs, including shots of the bedroom and kitchen and stairway..
At one point he was quoted as calling it "my cloister." **
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EDWARD WESTON
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"Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1,
1958) was an American photographer, and co-founder of Group f/64. Most
of his work was done using an 8 by 10 inch view camera. His
comprehensive legacy includes the detailed and articulate Daybooks he
kept regularly from the mid-1920s to 1934, which allow a very intimate
glimpse into his personal life, his views on photography, and his
working methods. Weston is generally recognized as one of the greatest
photographic artists of the 20th century." **
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LEE FRIEDLANDER
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"In the early 1960s Lee Friedlander's silver print
photographs offered a shockingly new aesthetic of an asymmetrical and
fragmented United States. Lacking defined borders and layered with a
disjointed profusion of architectural and advertising elements they were
compared to the broken, improvisational rhythms of jazz. It has been
said that Friedlander "upended the earnest humanism of postwar
photography with his lively, irreverent glimpses of city streets and his
tongue-in-cheek self portraits of the 1960s. The offhand wit and
graphic verve of those early pictures have never disappeared, but since
the early 1970s the photographer's mastery of craft, affection for
tradition, and voracious curiosity have spawned a fluid stream of
observation, ever more nimble and sensuous." **
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