Duane Michals
Posted on 24/01/11.
American photographer Duane Michals actually intended to become a graphic designer and in 1956 he went on to study design at Parsons, but didn’t complete his studies. He discovered his passion for photography while on a trip to Russia and is largely self-taught. He worked as a commercial photographer for the likes of Esquire magazine, and was hired by Mexico to document the Olympic games in 1968. He is best known however for his personal work which emphasises the imagination, the unseen, and the make-believe. He blurs the boundaries between photography and philosophy dealing with issues such as desire, time, youth and death.
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Mitch Epstein
Posted on 30/11/10.
American photographer Mitchell “Mitch” Epstein was born in 1952 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. In the early 1970s he studied at the Cooper Union, where he was a student of black-and-white photographer Garry Winogrand. After Winogrand brought photographer William Eggleston to his class, Epstein was inspired to produce colour photographs which at the time were considered a tool of advertising. Epstein later helped pioneer the redefinition of colour photography as an art form. By the mid-1970s, Epstein had abandoned his academic studies and begun to travel, embarking on a photographic exploration of the United States.
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Max Huber
Posted on 22/10/10.
Max Huber (1919–92) was an influential Swiss graphic designer with close links to a circle of brilliant artists, designers and intellectuals such as Josef Muller-Brockmann, Achille Castiglioni, Werner Bischof, Albe Steiner, and Carlo Vivarelli. At the end of WWII he moved to Milan where he produced some of his most iconic and influential designs. Huber’s work was consistently innovative, and by combining painting and photography with other graphic media, he remained avant-garde throughout his career, bringing the utopian vision of the modern masters to bear on corporate typography and identity design.
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Humberto Torres
Posted on 28/09/10.
Proudly presenting some great shots of the Everglades by photographer and friend of the studio Humberto Torres. These and two others have been showing in MAM (Miami Art Museum) over the summer!
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Balthazar Korab
Posted on 17/09/10.
Balthazar Korab is a photographer based in Detroit, Michigan who specializes in architectural, art and landscape photography. He was born in Budapest in 1926 and migrated to France in 1949. In 1955, Korab arrived in the United States, and Eero Saarinen employed him to photograph the architectural design process. The photo here is of Saarinen’s Dulles International Airport Terminal, Chantilly, Virginia, circa 1962. The excellent new exhibition ‘Speed Limits’ at the Wolfsonian has some beautiful prints of Korab’s photos of the inside of the North Carolina Mutual Life Building.
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Francis Alÿs
Posted on 15/09/10.
Back in London we were lucky enough to get to see the amazing Francis Alÿs show at the Tate Modern. Belgian born and living/working in Mexico city his work encompasses many media often involving the participation and presence of himself. These performed events are documented in video, photographs, writing, painting, and animation. In his best-known work, When Faith Moves Mountains (2002), Alÿs recruited 500 volunteers outside of Lima, Peru. Each person moved a shovel full of sand one step at a time from one side of a dune to the other, and together they moved the entire geographical location of the dune by a few inches. But it was two projectors on the floor of the museum showing images of people pulling carts of boxes around the Zócalo and Mexico City that we found most interesting.
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Untitled (Atlanta) 1984
Posted on 06/09/10.
This photo stood out at the Tate Modern’s ‘Exposed’ exhibition in London. Harry Morey Callahan (October 22, 1912 – March 15, 1999) was a self-taught American photographer who is considered to be one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century and noted as much for his work in color as for his work in black and white. He was born in Detroit, Michigan and started photographing in 1938. By 1946, he was appointed by László Moholy-Nagy to teach photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago. He would go out almost every morning, walk the city he lived in and take numerous pictures. He then spent the afternoon making proof prints of that day’s best negatives. Yet, at his own estimation, produced no more than half a dozen final images a year.
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