1901–1983 · United States · Photographer
Lisette Model
Frank, close-up street portraits with a blunt humanism.
Promenade des Anglais, 1934Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1923–1971 · UNITED STATES
Diane Arbus
Square, frontal portraits of people on the margins, made with their consent.
- Born
- 1923
- Died
- 1971
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1962Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park
- 1967Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey
WHY THEY MATTER
Featured in MoMA's New Documents (1967); first American photographer shown at the Venice Biennale; posthumous MoMA retrospective in 1972; Guggenheim Fellow.
THE LIFE
Arbus worked in fashion photography with her husband before studying with Lisette Model and turning to her own work. She photographed people often seen as outsiders, along with ordinary families, in direct square-format portraits. Her work appeared in the Museum of Modern Art's New Documents exhibition in 1967. A year after her death, she became the first American photographer shown at the Venice Biennale.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
Nikon (35 mm, before about 1962), Rolleiflex, Mamiya
Also born in 1900–1929
1902–1984 · United States · Photographer
Ansel Adams
Sharp black-and-white landscapes of the American West with full tonal range.
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941Source: Wikipedia
1902–2002 · Mexico · Photographer
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Poetic, quietly surreal views of Mexican life.
Striking Worker, Assassinated, 1934Source: Wikipedia
1903–1993 · Mexico · Photographer
Lola Alvarez Bravo
Modernist portraits and street pictures of postrevolutionary Mexico.
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo (Frida Kahlo exhibition), 1953Source: Wikipedia
1903–1975 · United States · Photographer
Walker Evans
Frontal, plain-spoken records of American vernacular life.
American Photographs, 1938Source: Wikipedia
1904–1983 · United Kingdom · Photographer
Bill Brandt
High-contrast social documentary, then distorted nudes and stark landscapes.
The English at Home, 1936Source: Wikipedia