Biography: City Life photographer Roman Vishniac
Roman Vishniac (1897 – 1990) was a Russian-American photographer, best known for capturing the culture…
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Biography: pioneer Istanbul photographer Pascal Sebah
Pascal Sébah (1823–1886) was an pioneer photographer who worked in Istanbul. In 1857, at the…
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Biography: City Life / Documentary photographer John Thomson
John Thomson (14 June 1837 – 29 September 1921) was a Scottish photographer. He was…
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Biography: City Life / Documentary photographer Emil Mayer
Emil Mayer (1871 – 1938) was a Viennese street photographer in the early 20th century.…
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Biography: City Life photographer Ruth Orkin
Ruth Orkin (3 September 1921 – 16 January 1985) was an American photographer. Orkin moved…
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Biography: City Life / Street photographer Herbert Dombrowski
Herbert Dombrowski (1917-2010) was a German photographer. Dombrowski was born in Hamburg in 1917 and…
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Biography: City Life/Street photographer Louis Faurer
Born in 1916 to immigrant parents from the Russian/Polish border, Louis Faurer’s childhood, in a…
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Biography: City Life photographer Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991), was an American photographer best known…
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Biography: Street photographer Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand (14 January 1928, New York City – 19 March 1984, Tijuana, Mexico) was…
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Biography: Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka (born January 10, 1938) is a Czech photographer. He was trained at the…
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Biography: Eugene Atget
Eugène Atget (February 12, 1857 – August 4, 1927) was a French pioneer of documentary…
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Biography: Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz ( born January 1, 1864 in Hoboken, New Jersey – July 13, 1946)…
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Biography: City Life/Street photographer Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American amateur street photographer,…
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Biography: Andre Kertesz
André Kertész (2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985), born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born…
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Biography: photographer Eustachy Kossakowski
Eustachy Kossakowski was born in 1925 into old Polish nobility. His grandfather Stanisław Kossakowski (1837-1905),…
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Biography: City Life photographer Fan Ho
Ho Fan (born October 8, 1937) is a Chinese Photographer, Film director and Actor. He…
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Biography: City Life/Street photographer Arthur Leipzig
Arthur Leipzig (born October 25, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American photographer who…
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Biography: City Life photographer Alice Austen
Alice Austen (March 17, 1866 – June 9, 1952) was one of America’s earliest and…
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