Todd Hido (pronounced Hie-doe) has a successful commercial photography career, but we won’t be paying any attention to that. He’s been hired by the N.Y. Times to photograph a well-known acting coach who is also a Scientologist, but you’re going to see those shots here. … Keep readingTodd Hido
Debbie Fleming Caffery was born in 1948 in New Iberia, Louisiana on Bayou Teche. She is a product of the intersection of multiple cultures; a woman with an Irish name born in an American town founded by Spanish immigrants in a territory dominated by French … Keep readingDebbie Fleming Caffery
One of the problems inherent in looking at the work of a photographer–or any artist or artisan or craftsperson–is trying to decide what information is important and what isn’t. How much does it matter that Elliot Erwitt was born Elio Romano Erwitz in Paris eighty … Keep readingElliot Erwitt
NUDE IMAGE NUDE IMAGE NUDE IMAGE Richard Prince was the first photographer whose work sold for more than a million dollars. It happened in 2005 in New York City at Christie’s auction house. The photograph (pictured below) was one of a very limited series of … Keep readingRichard Prince
There is a long history of social documentary photography in the United States. Before there was Milt Rogovin, before John Vachon, even before Lewis Hine, there was Jacob Riis. Riis was born in Ribe, Denmark in 1849, the third of fifteen children. Although his father … Keep readingJacob Riis
You’ve probably, at some point in your life seen one of the photographs on this page. They’ve become an facet of Americana, wistful representations of a bygone era in which steam locomotives transported goods and people across the huge expanse of the North American continent. … Keep readingO. Winston Link
Traditional architectural photography is documentary. It’s intended to be aesthetically pleasing, of course, but the primary concern is to accurately depict the appearance of a structure. Most architectural photographers come to their craft through their love of architecture. Robert Polidori is different; he’s different in … Keep readingRobert Polidori
There are artists–painters, dancers, musicians, photographers–for whom you have an immediate affinity. For me, that’s Saul Leiter. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1923; his father was a rabbi, a Talmudic scholar of some repute. It was only natural that Saul Leiter would follow … Keep readingSaul Leiter
Francesca Woodman was born in April of 1958 in Denver, Colorado. Both her parents were successful artists; her mother Betty was an accomplished ceramicist and art teacher, her father George, a painter and photographer. The family owned a summer near Florence, Italy and the Woodmans … Keep readingFrancesca Woodman
Phil Borges was your basic yuppie. A successful orthodontist, socially conscious, politically liberal, he traveled widely to remote areas of the world for pleasure and toted along an expensive camera to record his travels. Like a lot of enthusiastic hobbyists, Borges started taking some photography … Keep readingPhil Borges