Jozef Emiel Borrenbergen was one of the leading early amateur photographers in Belgium. He was a pictorialist, born in Antwerp in 1884. He saw all important periods in photography since the turn of the century and marvelously adapted to new styles and techniques. He was the editor of the magazine “Fotokunst” from 1924 to 1939…
Category: Inspirations
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Harold Cazneaux
Harold Cazneaux was an Australian pictorialist photographer. A pioneer whose style had an indelible impact on the development of Australian photographic history. Harold Pierce Cazneaux was born in Wellington, New Zealand on 30 March 1878. His family moved to Adelaide in the 1890s and Harold started working in his father’s studio and attended H. P. Gill’s evening classes at…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Burton Brothers
Burton Brothers was one of New Zealand’s most important nineteenth-century. Alfred Henry Burton (1834–1914) and Walter John Burton (1836–1880) were born in Leicester, England. Their father, John Burton, was a prominent photographer in the region. His firm, John Burton and Sons, was patronised by Queen Victoria and other members of the Royal Family. In 1866…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Samuel Bourne
Samuel Bourne was a British photographer known for his prolific seven years’ work in India. His name is synonymous with British and Indian photography and he is the most researched and acclaimed colonial photographer. Bourne was born on 30 October 1834, at Napley Heath, near Mucklestone, on the Staffordshire and Shropshire border. After being educated by a clergyman near Fairburn,…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Adolphe Braun
Adolphe Braun was a French photographer, best known for his floral still lifes, Parisian street scenes, and grand Alpine landscapes. Adolphe Braun was born in Besançon in 1812. His family relocated to Mulhouse, a textile manufacturing center in the Alsace region along the Franco-German border at the age of 10. He showed promise as a…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Frank Gohlke
Frank Gohlke is an American landscape photographer, awarded two Guggenheim fellowships, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Fulbright Scholar Grant. He bought his first camera as a teenager and was a member of the Wichita Falls camera club during high school, eventually purchasing an enlarger and learning to process gelatin…
Monday Photography Inspiration – Philip Jones Griffiths
Philip Jones Griffiths was a Welsh photojournalist best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War. Born in 1936 in Rhuddlan, Wales, Philip Jones Griffiths studied pharmacology in Liverpool, and worked in London as the night manager at the Piccadilly branch of Boots, while also photographing part-time for the Manchester Guardian. His first photograph was of a friend, taken with the family Brownie in a rowing…
Monday Photography Inspiration – Sid Grossman
Sid Grossman was was an American photographer, teacher, and social activist. He was born in New York. During his high school years in the Bronx he became an avid photographer and joined the Camera Club. In 1936, with the photographer, Sol Libsohn, he founded the Photo League whose purpose was to use and promote photography…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky is regarded as one of the world’s most accomplished contemporary photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes represent over 40 years of his dedication to bearing witness to the impact of human industry on the planet. Edward Burtynsky was born in St. Catharines, Ontario. He received his Bachelor of Applied Arts…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Leopold Ahrendts
Leopold Ahrendts was a was a German draftsman, painter, lithographer and photographer born in Dessau Berlin in 1825. He first worked as a painter and lithographer. There is evidence of his participation in the Berlin academy exhibition in the years 1850–52 with lithographs. From 1852 he is listed in the Berlin address book, initially as a lithographer…
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