1901–1983 · United States · Photographer
Lisette Model
Frank, close-up street portraits with a blunt humanism.
Promenade des Anglais, 1934Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1904–1971 · UNITED STATES
Margaret Bourke-White
Bold industrial and reportage images with a monumental sense of scale.
- Born
- 1904
- Died
- 1971
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1936Fort Peck Dam (first Life cover)
- 1945Buchenwald (liberation)
WHY THEY MATTER
A pioneer of industrial photography who shot the first cover of Life (1936); her work is held by the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Library of Congress.
THE LIFE
Bourke-White began as an architectural and commercial photographer, making dramatic pictures of steel mills and skyscrapers. In 1933 she produced a large photomural for NBC at Rockefeller Center. She went on to a long career as a photojournalist.
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
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Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Poetic, quietly surreal views of Mexican life.
Striking Worker, Assassinated, 1934Source: Wikipedia
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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