Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman was an American photographer.

Despite a short life, she was an influential and important photographic artist for the last decades of the 20th century. He appeared in many of his photographs and his work focused mainly on his body and what surrounded him, often managing to fuse them together with skill

 

 

Cynthia Morris Sherman, aka Cindy is an American artist, photographer and director, known for her conceptual self-portraits.

During his career, the artist has carried out research on the construction of the identity conveyed by different media: film, television, magazines, internet, but also by art. Sherman’s work deals with the problems of the representation of women, a subject developed by many American feminist artists such as Adrian Piper or Hannah Wilke.

Eliott Erwitt

Elliott Erwitt, born Elio Romano Erwitz is an American photographer specialized in advertising and documentary photography, known for his black and white shots depicting ironic and absurd situations of everyday. He followed the style of Henri Cartier-Bresson, master in seizing the decisive moment.

Erwitt is a photographer universally recognized for the delicate irony of his gaze, which has always preferred to address the absurdities' present in our society' rather than its diseases.  While taking photography extremely seriously, he has always maintained the extreme importance of humor in his photographs

 

 

Irving Penn was an American photographer.

He was the older brother of the famous director Arthur Penn.

Irving Penn is the photographer who most of all has left an indelible mark in the history of fashion photography.

​According to Anna Wintour, the historical editor of Vogue, the magazine for which Penn worked for 60 years, the American photographer "changed the way people see the world, and the perception of what beauty is". In the case of Penn, "fashion photographer " is probably a reductive definition: the American photographer was an all-round artist, interested in all the multiple aspects of the study of form and color, and arrived at the world of photography only later.

Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau was a French photographer of the so-called Humanist Photography.

Robert Doisneau managed, more than anyone else, to portray the "French". His photographs captured the spirit of an entire nation and became synonymous with the French lifestyle. No one as he knew how to tell the charm of the Ville Lumiere: Doisneau was able to crystallize in images all the myths and icons of Paris of the ¿900. Doisneau. Crossing the city from the Seine to the workers' suburbs, Doisneau tells us about the Paris of the lovers, that of the bistros, that of the fashion studios and that of the street children, giving to his admirers a monumental fresco of Paris and Parisians.

 

 

Steve Mccurry is an American photographer, one of the photographers of Magnum Photos, who has ranged with his reportages in multiple genres, from street photography to war photography and from urban photography to portrait.

There’s a kind of paradox in Steve Mccurry’s photography. Technically speaking, his photos are practically perfect, serene, characterized by the strength and vivacity of the color, but they tell disturbing stories of poverty and uprooting, hunger and despair.

 

Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore is an American photographer.
An internationally renowned photographer, Stephen Shore is best known for his collaboration in the neotopography project "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape".

Stephen Shore is universally considered one of the founding fathers of modern color photography. As he says: "I practically photographed every dish I ate, every person I met, every bed I slept in and every bathroom I urinated in. "The result is a powerful fresco of provincial America, in which Shore tells us the modified landscape modified by man. The service stations, the road signs, the cars, the electric cables, the advertising signs, are the signs of consumerism that have forever changed the traditional American landscape.

 

 

 

Helmut Newton, the pseudonym of Helmut Neustädter, was a German-born Australian photographer, best known for his studies of the female nude.

Newton’s fame exploded in the world of photography at the end of the 60’s, when I began to introduce in fashion photography elements of sado-masochism, voyeurism and omitted sexuality'. The women are filmed in provocative poses.

His career was accompanied by a taste for provocation.  In 1974, his first book White Women was published. He got the desired effect: a bomb. Starting from the title, accused of racism. «But what racism» he replied, «it’s a beautiful title, so much so that there is not even a black woman in the whole volume...»

 

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German-American photographer and photojournalist. He used to use a Leica M3 camera with a 35 mm lens. He is best remembered for his photo of the celebrations in Times Square on the day of the victory against Japan.

Eisenstaedt was the pioneer of natural light photography. He renounced the flash to take advantage of the natural environment. Another strong point was the simplicity of his compositions. He almost always worked with minimal equipment. He was the master of "candid" photography, with random images that give an emotional load to the viewer.

 

 

Herb Ritts was an American photographer and director, who focused primarily on black and white photography and portraiture, inspired by the style of classical Greek sculpture. As a result, as with Bruce Weber, some of his most famous works are nude male and female in the style that can be termed glamorous photography. Initially he never used any technical devices, not even lights that were not solar and his simple style, and effective, was influenced by great photographers of the past such as Irving Penn and Helmut Newton. He is listed by many art critics as one of the best fashion photographers of the last century.

 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer, considered a pioneer of photojournalism, so much so as to deserve the title of "eye of the century". Theorist of the decisive moment in photography, he also helped to bring surrealist photography to a wider audience. He was one of the most important exponents of the so-called humanist photography.

Henry Cartier- Bresson is probably the most influential photographer of the '900, so much so that he earned the nickname of   "eye of the century". Although this statement may be difficult to prove, few will deny that his black-and-white photographs, his "decisive moment" aesthetics, have been the predominant model of the last century, and probably of this as well.

Terence Patrick O'Neill  was a British photographer, known for documenting the fashions, styles, and celebrities of the 1960s. O'Neill's photographs capture his subjects candidly or in unconventional settings.

His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions. He was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2004 and the society's Centenary Medal in 2011. His work is held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

He photographed The Beatles and The Rolling Stones when they were still struggling young bands in 1963, pioneered backstage reportage photography with David Bowie, Elton John, Eric Clapton and Chuck Berry and his images have adorned historic rock albums, movie posters and international magazine covers.