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
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1901–1983 · UNITED STATES
Lisette Model
Frank, close-up street portraits with a blunt humanism.
- Born
- 1901
- Died
- 1983
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1934Promenade des Anglais
- 1939Lower East Side
WHY THEY MATTER
Guggenheim Fellow (1965); member of the Photo League; teacher of Diane Arbus at the New School.
THE LIFE
Model was born in Vienna and later settled in New York. In the 1940s she was a busy street photographer, a member of the Photo League and a contributor to Harper's Bazaar. From 1951 until her death she taught at the New School for Social Research, where Diane Arbus was her most famous student. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1965.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
Rolleiflex
Also born in 1900–1929
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
1904–1999 · Argentina · Photographer
Grete Stern
Surreal photomontages and modernist portraits.
Los Sueños (for Idilio), 1948Source: Wikipedia