Lee Miller is as well known for her personal life as she is for her fine art photography. Her work consisted of portraits and photojournalism. She seems to have been at the right place at the right time to capture many pivotal moments of the twentieth century. Her photojournalism centered on war photography and her …
Judy Dater is a 20th century American photographer who primarily captures portraits, self-portraits, and the figure. Her early work emerged while feminism was erupting in western society, and feminist ideals are prominent in her photographs. She is widely known for the ways in which she portrayed the human form while challenging concepts of sexuality and …
Heinrich Kühn was a 19th century Austrian–German photographer recognized as a setting the foundation upon which photography would be recognized as an art form in the same light as painting and drawing. He had family background in the arts and an interest in pursuing art. His grandfather was a sculptor and Heinrich Kühn studied painting. …
Cindy Sherman is a contemporary American photographer best known for self portraits that depict her as various imagined characters. These artistic constructions reference icons of culture, gender, and social cues through various assumed identities. The tone is sometimes critical and other times humorous, often appropriating the tropes of television or Hollywood. Many of Cindy Sherman’s …
The MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York City has an extensive collection of fine art photography numbering more than 25,000 pieces. This collection includes some of the most important modern and contemporary art photographs in the world. Their collection includes photography by Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Dorothea Lange, and Jerry Uelsmann.
Diane Arbus was an American 20th Century photographer who created intimate black and white portraits. Her fine art photographs depicted marginalized people, such as those with mental illness, so-called “freak show” workers, and transgender people. Examples of her portraits included female impersonators, body builders, heavily tattooed people, nudists, and triplets. These images portrayed these people …
Imogen Cunningham was an American 20th century photographer know for botanical photography, figures, and industrial landscapes. She was a founding member of the f/64 group along with Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and others. She worked mostly with a 4×5 (inch) format film camera, producing black and white fine art photographs. Cunningham photography has been published …
Sally Mann is a contemporary American photographer best known for large format, black-and-white photographs chronicling the development of her children, and her landscape photography. Mann’s work is haunting and theatrical in nature. The lightly-staged images evoke scenes from motion pictures. Her landscape photography is said to evoke feelings of death and decay. Mann was awarded Individual …