Evaluation. Magnum Photos Photographer Profile. Eve Arnold was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Russian immigrant parents.
She began photographing in 1946, while working at a photo-finishing plant in New York City, and then studied photography in 1948 with Alexei Brodovitch at the New School for Social Research in New York. Arnold first became associated with Magnum Photos in 1951, and became a full member in 1957. She was based in the US during the 1950s but went to England in 1962 to put her son through school; except for a six-year interval when she worked in the US and China, she lived in the UK for the rest of her life. Her time in China led to her first major solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1980, where she showed the resulting images. In the same year, she received the National Book Award for In China and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Magazine Photographers. In later years she received many other honours and awards. Eve passed away in January of 2012.
Education Awards Exhibitions Books. Bate on Portraits. Face. Lincoln Clarkes's Vintage Photographs of Vancouver's Female Addicts Are Incredible. Olivia Arthur Photographs a Side of Women the West Rarely Sees. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2009.
Lighty's bedroom tent. Last year, we struck up a partnership with Magnum – arguably the world's most famous photo agency – that allowed us to run some of their most amazing pictures at our website. Now, the series of interviews with their member-photographers, all of whom have to undergo a gruelling induction process, returns for 2014. Olivia Arthur’s groundbreaking work on young women in Saudi Arabia became the 2012 book, Jeddah Diary. This project, along with her wider project, Middle Distance, examines women’s lives along the fault lines between Europe and Asia, and in societies often deemed closed to the West. I spoke to her about the difficulties of working with women in segregated societies, and whether there’s an over-arching theme to her work. VICE: So, first off – how did you go from being an Oxford Maths student to being a photographer? After I finished university I went to India.
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2009. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2009. Okay. Magnum Photos Photographer Profile. Amazon.co. Man Ray. Lee Miller. Early life[edit] Lee Miller was born on April 23, 1907, in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Her parents were Theodore and Florence Miller (née MacDonald). Her father was of German descent, and her mother of Canadian, Scottish and Irish descent. She had a younger brother named Erik, and an older brother named John. Theodore always favored Lee, and he often used her as a model for his amateur photography. Career[edit] Modeling[edit] Lee-miller-by-man-ray1. Leemillermanray1930. Solarized-portrait-of-Lee-Miller-by-Man-Ray1930. DSC01355. v8iorx6mgerl8voe. 2006BJ9151_miller_man_ray. Man Ray. Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky, August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American modernist artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France.
He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself.[1] Life and career[edit] Background and early life[edit] During his career as an artist, Man Ray allowed few details of his early life or family background to be known to the public. Man Ray's father worked in a garment factory and ran a small tailoring business out of the family home. First artistic endeavors[edit] The Misunderstood (1938), collection of the Man Ray Estate Man Ray displayed artistic and mechanical abilities during childhood. Imogen Cunningham. A botanical photograph of a succulent plant by Imogen Cunningham.
Edward Weston. Edward Weston. Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was a 20th-century American photographer.
He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…"[1] and "one of the masters of 20th century photography. Nude 1. Nude 2. Nude 3. Nude 4. Edward Weston - Ruth Shaw. Icon. Index. Jodi Bieber - Bibi Aisha. Alexander Gardner - Abraham Lincon.