1852–1934 · United States · Photographer
Gertrude Kasebier
Soft-focus Pictorialist portraits of mothers, children and sitters at rest.
The Manger, 1899Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1890–1976 · UNITED STATES
Man Ray
Surrealist experiment: photograms, solarisation and staged portraits.
- Born
- 1890
- Died
- 1976
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1924Le Violon d'Ingres
- 1926Noire et Blanche
WHY THEY MATTER
Major figure of Dada and Surrealism; his work is held by the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou and the National Gallery of Victoria.
THE LIFE
Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in the United States, Man Ray spent most of his career in Paris. He was part of the Dada and Surrealist circles, though his ties to both were loose. He considered himself mainly a painter but innovated in photography, notably with camera-less photograms he called rayographs. He also worked as a fashion and portrait photographer.
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