Book Review: “Gypsies” by Josef Koudelka - ERIC KIM.

For the U.S. Solicitor General, see Jeff Wall (lawyer). Jeffrey Wall, OC, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art history 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.

The life and the intention of Eugene Atget are fundamentally unknown to us. A few documented facts and a handful of recollections and legends provide a scant outline of the man: He was born in Libourne, near Bordeaux, in 1857, and worked as a sailor during his youth; from the sea he turned to the stage, with no more than minor success; at forty.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. This companion volume to a major exhibition of the work of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy highlights the extraordinary range of his prolific career. Throughout his career Moholy-Nagy produced brilliant works in painting, film, photography, sculpture, set design and typography.

The Best Books For Photography Lovers. Frieze Art Fair 2009. Photo: Linda Nylind. No bookcase, shelf or coffee table is complete without the addition of a mighty photography tome. Whether you want a quick fix of stunning pictures or an in-depth analysis of an artist’s oeuvre, Culture Trip selects the best photography books for novices and aficionados alike. Bystander, published by Laurence.

William Klein (born April 19, 1928) is an American-born French photographer and filmmaker noted for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the context of photojournalism and fashion photography. He was ranked 25th on Professional Photographer ' s list of 100 most influential photographers. Klein trained as a painter, studying under.

The photo essay illustrates the politics of missing visuals from the public domain and analysis of the artist’s book Bin Laden Situation Room. The book is a reaction to the photograph issued on 2 May 2011 by the American government at the time of Bin Laden’s execution. The image taken by the official White House photographer Pete.

Regarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag’s searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. From Goya’s Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia, pictures have been charged with inspiring dissent, fostering violence or instilling apathy in us, the viewer.

Country Doctor Ernest Ceriani Making House Call on Foot in Small Town Photographic Print by W. Eugene Smith at AllPosters.com.

Mary Ellen Mark befriended these youngsters and produced an award-nominee, and emotional still series on kids in 1988 named as “StreetWise”. The strongest images are of a 14-year-old girl, Erin or “Tiny”. Her stills are soulful, an unsmiling kid lost in the depths of fear, pain and discomfort.

Born in Laredo, Texas, in 1944, she was educated at Bard College in New York. Prior to coming to New Orleans, Sacabo lived and worked extensively in France and England. Her earlier work was in the photo-journalistic tradition and influenced by Robert Frank, Josef Koudelka, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. She now works in a very subjective.

The images here interrogate and penetrate, and reflect the nature of alienation. The accompanying essay by Robert Delpire invokes the soul of man in search of a spiritual homeland. Josef Koudelka's photographs of the Warsaw Pact armies' intervention in Prague won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1969. In 1970 he left Czechoslovakia for asylum.