“Remember – you’re as good as your last picture. One day you’re a hero, the next day you’re a bum…” – Weegee Arthur (Usher) Fellig known by his pseudonym Weegee, was a photographer and photojournalist born in the town of Lemburg (Ukraine) on June 12, 1889, known for his stark black and white street photography in New York City. He first worked as…
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – John Dillwyn Llewelyn
John Dillwyn Llewelyn born in the parish of Llangyfelach, Swansea, Wales on the 12 January 1810. He was a botanist and pioneer photographer. The eldest son of Lewis Weston Dillwyn and Mary Dillwyn, née Adams, the natural daughter of Col. John Llewelyn of Penllergaer and Ynysygerwn. His sister, Mary Dillwyn (1816–1906), is remembered as the earliest female photographer in Wales. Upon coming of age he…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Florence Henri
Florence Henri was a surrealist artist born in New York City 1893, to a French father and a German mother. She left the United States permanently at age two, following the death of her mother in 1895. Henri and her father began traveling for his work as a director of a petroleum company. She spent her…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – George Platt Lynes
“I’m the damned soul of my damned camera, and God, how it hates me sometimes” – George Platt Lynes George Platt Lynes is recognized today as a master of 20th century photography, influencing artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe and Herb Ritts. Though Lynes was commercially successful in New York fashion and portrait photography, his art…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Mathew Brady
“My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.” – Matthew Brady Referred to as the father of photojournalism, Mathew Brady was born in 1823, near Lake George, New York, U.S. Well-known in the 19th-century this American photographer was celebrated…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration- H. H. Bennett
Henry Hamilton Bennett was born in Farnham, Lower Canada. In 1857, at the age of 14, Bennett moved with his father and uncle to Wisconsin. They settled in Kilbourn City, today known as Wisconsin Dells, and Henry worked as a carpenter in the town. After the outbreak of the American Civil War, Bennett joined the army and fought…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Germaine Krull
Germaine Krull (29 November 1897 – 31 July 1985), was a great modernist photographer, activist, inveterate traveller and hotelier Germaine Krull. Germaine was born born in Wilda-Poznań, East Prussia 29 November 1897. It was then in Germany and is now Poznań, Poland. Her nationality has been categorised as German, Polish, French, and Dutch, but…
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