Brassaï

 Brassaï

Brassaï (pseudonym of Gyula Halász) (9 September 1899–8 July 1984) was a Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerous Hungarian artists who flourished in Paris beginning between the World Wars. In the early 21st century, the discovery of more than 200 letters and hundreds of drawings and other items from the period 1940-1984 has provided scholars with material for understanding his later life and career.

Franco Fontana

Franco Fontana

 

Franco Fontana is an Italian photographer born in Modena, on December, 9th, 1933. He is best known for his abstract colour landscapes.

 

 

Jeff Wall

Jeff Wall

 

 

Jeffrey "Jeff" Wall, OC, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art-historical writing. Wall has been a key figure in Vancouver's art scene since the early-1970s. Early in his career, he helped define the Vancouver School and he has published essays on the work of his colleagues and fellow Vancouverites Rodney Graham, Ken Lum and Ian Wallace. His photographic tableaux often take Vancouver's mixture of natural beauty, urban decay and postmodern and industrial featurelessness as their backdrop.

 

 

 

Trent Parke

Trent Parke

Trent Parke (born 1971) is an Australian photographer.Parke was born and brought up in Newcastle (NSW); he now lives in Sydney. He started photography when he was twelve.

Chris Friel

Chris Friel

Chris Friel (born 1959) is a British photographer noted for his abstract landscape images. 

Adrian Brannan

Adrian Brannan

Adrian Brannan is a contemporary artist who works mainly in the medium of photo collage focusing on cityscapes as his most frequently chosen subject matter. Adrian has worked in this medium since studying at the Glasgow School of Art from where he graduated with Honours in 2000.He has exhibited in various UK locations including with the Royal Glasgow Institute for the Fine Arts, the Association of Photographers Gallery in London and The Glasgow Room.Adrian has won various awards from the likes of the Association of Photographers and Glasgow city Council.

 

 

 

René Maltête

 René Maltête

René Maltête' (1930-2000) was a French photographer who was a Humor specialist. He also wrote some poem books.

Bernard Faucon

 Bernard Faucon

Bernard Faucon (born 1950) is a French photographer and writer.

Faucon was born in Apt, in Provence, southern France. He was taught at the lycée in Apt, then graduated in Philosophy from the Sorbonne in 1973. Until 1977 he worked as a fine art painter, and thereafter discovered photography. His photographic work has a love of youth and dreamy beauty, using saturated colour, natural settings, rooms and often tableaux of mannequins. His work has been compared to that of Jan Saudek.

Elliott Erwitt

Elliott Erwitt

Elliott Erwitt (b. 26 July 1928 Paris, France) is an advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings—the master of the "decisive moment".

 

 

 

Michael Kenna

Michael Kenna

Michael Kenna (born 1953) is an English photographer best known for his black & white landscapes.Kenna attended Upholland College in Lancashire, the Banbury School of Art in Oxfordshire, and the London College of Printing. In the 1980s, Kenna moved to San Francisco and worked as Ruth Bernhard's printer.