“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered.” Chris Killip Chris Killip was a British documentary photographer best known for his powerful and empathetic portrayal of working-class communities in the northeast of England. Born in Douglas, Isle of Man, Killip’s photographic career spanned several decades, during which…
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Herbert G. Ponting
Herbert George Ponting was a Brisitsh photographer best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910–1913). In this role, he captured some of the most enduring images of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Herbert George Ponting was born on March…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Herbert Dombrowski
Herbert Dombrowski was a German photographer born in Hamburg in 1917 and began to take pictures as a high-school student. He was 19 when he went to the Hamburg port at night to photograph the SS St. Louis. The image, taken with a used Leica camera, was published on the cover of Reclams Universum, a…
Monday Photography Inspiration – Bill Cunningham
“I don’t pay attention to celebrities. I don’t photograph them. They don’t dress so…interestingly. They have stylists. I prefer real women who have their own taste. – Bill Cunningham Bill Cunningham was an American fashion photographer for The New York Times, known for his candid and street photography. William John Cunningham Jr. was born into an Irish Catholic family and raised in…
Monday Photography Inspiration – Walker Evans
Walker Evans was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. He was He born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1903. Walker was raised in an affluent environment; he spent his youth in Toledo, Ohio, Chicago, and New York City. He dabbled with painting as a child,…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Šechtl and Voseček
The photographic studio Šechtl and Voseček was founded in Tábor (Bohemia) in 1888 by Ignác Šechtl, who accepted his assistant Jan Voseček as co-member of his photographic studio. The history of Šechtl & Voseček Studios goes back to 1863, when Ignác Schächtl (1840 – 1911) made the decision to leave his work as a clerk…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Augustín Víctor Casasola
Agustín Víctor Casasola was a Mexican photographer and partial founder of the Mexican Association of Press Photographers. He was born in Mexico City on July 28,1874 and apprenticed as a typographer. He later became a reporter for El Imparicial, which was one of the official newspapers of the Díaz government. Typography demands precision, a sense…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Leslie Gill
Leslie Gill among a group of photographers who elevated the editorial still life photograph to a unique American art form. Gill studied painting with Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and graduated with honours from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1929. While working as art director of House Beautiful magazine, Gill began to make his own…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – John Carbutt
John Carbutt as a photographic pioneer, stereo card publisher, and photographic entrepreneur. He was the first person to use celluloid for photographic film and to market dry-plate glass negative. He was born in Sheffield, England on 2 December 1832 and moved to Chicago in 1853. Carbutt founded the Keystone Dry Plate Works in 1879 and was the first to develop…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Kassian Cephas
Kassian Cephas was a Javanese photographer of the court of the Yogyakarta Sultanate. He was the first indigenous person from Indonesia to become a professional photographer and was trained at the request of Sultan Hamengkubuwana VI (r. 1855–1877). As a youth, Cephas became a pupil of Protestant Christian missionary Christina Petronella Philips-Steven and followed her to nearby Bagelen, Purworejo….
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