Photography is the art of not pushing the button” – Frank Horvat Frank Horvat is a renowned photographer whose career spans several decades and is marked by a diverse and influential body of work. Born in Abbazia in April 28, 1928, (now Opatija, Croatia), Horvat later moved to Switzerland and then to Milan, Italy, where…
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Monday Photography Inspiration – Homer Page
Homer Page, a visionary American documentary photographer, etched his name into photographic history through a captivating lens that focused on the vibrant heart of New York City during the transformative years of 1949–1950. His journey into the world of photography began humbly, sparked by a youthful fascination. Born in the city of Oakland, California, Page…
Monday Photography Inspiration – William Gedney
William Gedney was an American documentary and street photographer. He was born in Greenville, New York in 1932. He grew-up in upstate New York and then moved to Manhattan at the age of nineteen to attend the Pratt Institute. It was there that he discovered his interest in photography. In 1955, he graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design and began…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Louis Faurer
Louis Faurer was an American candid or street photographer. He was a quiet artist who never achieved the broad public recognition that his best-known contemporaries did. However, the significance and caliber of his work were lauded by insiders, among them Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Edward Steichen, who included his work in the Museum of Modern Art exhibitions In and Out of…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – John Albok
John Albok was a Hungarian photographer who documented street scenes in New York City during the Great Depression and later. John Albok was born in Munkacs, Hungary, in what is now the Ukraine. From the ages of 13 to 17, he trained was a tailor’s apprentice and was later drafted into the Hungarian army. He began…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Emil Mayer
Emil Mayer was a Viennese street photographer born on October 3, 1871, in Neubydzow, Bohemia now Nový Bydžov, Czech Republic. He was lawyer, inventor, and businessperson and certainly the greatest of the European bromoilists in the 1920s and 30s. From 1891 to 1896 Mayer studied law at the University of Vienna. In 1896 where he earned the juris…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Arthur Leipzig
Arthur Leipzig was an American photographer born in Brooklyn, New York who specialised in street photography and is known for his photographs of New York City. After sustaining a serious injury to his right hand while working at a glass wholesaler, Leipzig joined the Photo League where he studied photography and took part in Sid Grossman’s Documentary Workshop and…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Charles Harbutt
“A photograph is a collision between a person with a camera and reality. The photograph is typically as interesting as collision is.” – Charles Harbutt Charles Henry Harbutt was an American photographer, a former president of Magnum, and full-time Associate Professor of Photography at Parsons School of Design in New York. He was born in Camden, New Jersey, and…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Garry Winogrand
“You know why your pictures are no fucking good. Because they don’t describe the chaos of life.” – Garry Winogrand Not a quote that I am sure that I agree but we are all allowed our opinions. Chaos is not something that I thrive in unfortunately it is something that I am surrounded by. However,…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Todd Webb
Todd Webb was an American photographer known for documenting everyday life and architecture in cities such as New York City, Paris as well as from the American west. was born in Detroit in 1905 and grew up there and in a Quaker community in Ontario. Having been a successful stockbroker in the 1920’s, he lost all of his earnings, and then some, in The…
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