1852–1934 · United States · Photographer
Gertrude Kasebier
Soft-focus Pictorialist portraits of mothers, children and sitters at rest.
The Manger, 1899Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1897–1985 · GERMANY
Germaine Krull
Dynamic modernist pictures of steel, machines and cities.
- Born
- 1897
- Died
- 1985
- Country
- Germany
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1928Métal
- 1930Études de nu
WHY THEY MATTER
Her 1928 portfolio Metal, 64 photographs of industrial structures, is her best-known work; she was a leading photojournalist for the French magazine Vu.
THE LIFE
Krull was born in Posen-Wilda and grew up largely homeschooled by her father. She worked in Amsterdam and Paris in the 1920s, close to Sonia and Robert Delaunay. Her 1928 portfolio Metal, shot in Paris, Marseille and Holland, made the industrial landscape a modernist subject. She worked as a photojournalist for Vu and later spent years in Brazil, the Republic of the Congo, Thailand and India.
Also born in 1850–1899
1857–1927 · France · Photographer
Eugene Atget
Patient, empty-street records of old Paris before modernisation.
Avenue des Gobelins, 1927Source: Wikipedia
1864–1946 · United States · Photographer
Alfred Stieglitz
From Pictorialism to sharp modernism, with a deep belief in photography as art.
The Steerage, 1907Source: Wikipedia
1874–1940 · United States · Photographer
Lewis Hine
Direct, dignified portraits of working children and labourers.
Young Doffers in the Elk Cotton Mills, 1910Source: Wikipedia
1876–1964 · Germany · Photographer
August Sander
Typological portraits of every class and trade, frontal and calm.
Face of Our Time (Antlitz der Zeit), 1929Source: Wikipedia
1879–1973 · United States · Photographer
Edward Steichen
Painterly early work, then glossy modern fashion and celebrity portraits.
The Flatiron, 1904Source: Wikipedia