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. 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 was born as Emmanuel Radnitzky in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. in 1890.[3] He was the eldest child of Russian Jewish immigrants.[3] He had a brother and two sisters, the youngest born in 1897 shortly after they settled in the Williamsburg[3] neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. First artistic endeavors[edit] New York[edit] Paris[edit] Later life[edit]
Photographs Do Not Bend: contemporary photographers Archives Research: Sam Taylor Wood, Still Life (video stills), 2001 In the arts, vanitas is a type of symbolic work of art especially associated with Northern European still life in Flanders and the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries though also common in other places and periods. The word is Latin, meaning "emptiness" and loosely translated corresponds to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of Vanity. Kim Høltermand Ver más Ya.com Fantastic photomontage and its possible influences, 1857 - 2007 : a timeline ... interior frame Edgar Allen Poe 1850/6: The Works of Poe The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe were published in the U.S. (1850 & 1856), although sadly edited by someone who sometimes freely rewrote and recombined the stories. Poe (1809-1849) had been known in his own lifetime — but only as a critic, not as a writer of fiction. Poe's works, along with de Sade and the recovery of European folk/fairy tales, became the seeds of a sophisticated gothic imagination (there had been an unsophisticated pre-1848 literature of 'Penny Dreadfuls' and a brief British craze for horror stage shows) — which can be seen running through Stevenson's Hyde (1886), the 'L'Esprit Decadent' novels of the 1880s, James' The Turn of the Screw (1898), Ernst's collage novels, Lovecraft, Mervyn Peake, Borges, Ray Bradbury, Angela Carter, to Jan Svankmajer and beyond. ← return to index Oscar Gustave Rejlander 1857: "The Two Ways of Life". Henry Peach Robinson 1858: "Fading Away". H.D Fredericks & Co. 1858-1889: collaged group portraits Alice
Annie Liebovitz Born in 1949 in Waterbury, Connecticut, Annie Leibovitz enrolled in the San Francisco Art Institute intent on studying painting. It was not until she traveled to Japan with her mother the summer after her sophomore year that she discovered her interest in taking photographs. When she returned to San Francisco that fall, she began taking night classes in photography. Time spent on a kibbutz in Israel allowed her to hone her skills further. In 1970 Leibovitz approached Jann Wenner, founding editor of Rolling Stone, which he’d recently launched and was operating out of San Francisco. When the magazine began printing in color in 1974, Leibovitz followed suit. In 1980 Rolling Stone sent Leibovitz to photograph John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who had recently released their album “Double Fantasy.” Annie Leibovitz: Photographs, the photographer’s first book, was published in 1983.
kbx< Kobas + Laksa > Henri Cartier-Bresson Annie Liebovitz January 3rd, 2007 Annie Leibovitz Photo Gallery Get access to content from your local PBS station.Get sneak previews from some of your favorite shows including Masterpiece, Nova, etc.See what's on tonight at your local PBS station. Der Karlsruher Wolkenatlas - Wolken und Wetter - Fotografie Las modelos de Tichý Una lata de tomate usada. Un trozo de plexiglás abandonado. Un paquete de cigarrillos vacío. Que con desechos de ese tipo se puedan fabricar cámaras fotográficas es algo de por sí sorprendente. Su historia comienza el 24 de febrero de 1948. Aunque la única ambición de este hombre extraño era, fundamentalmente, mantener su libertad, muy pronto su actitud fue interpretada como una forma de disidencia por las autoridades comunistas, que empezaron a controlarle, a impedirle ejercer la pintura y a acosarle hasta encerrarle en cárceles y hospitales psiquiátricos durante tres lustros, el tiempo que tardarían en enterarse de que se trataba de un hombre pacífico, sin intención de animar rebeliones. Desde mitad de la década de los sesenta hasta la de los noventa, todos los días Miroslav Tichý se levantará pronto y deambulará por Kyjov, observará a las mujeres y disparará 100 instantáneas diarias. Gracias a Buxbaum, la historia y el arte de Tichý no se han perdido en el olvido.