Week Forty Two
Beat Streuli (1957-)
Birmingham, 2001
Swiss artist Beat Streuli is known for his images / portraits of people seen on the street. For over twenty years he has documented people in cities all over the world – Tokyo, New York, Birmingham (UK), Frankfurt and numerous others – as […]
Week Thirty Nine
John Thomson (1837 – 1921)
Covent Garden Flower Women, 1877-8
Born in Edinburgh in 1837, John Thomson was a pioneering photographer and traveller. One of the first photographers to travel to the Far East in the 1860’s and 70’s, he brought back with him images of the people, landscapes and […]
Week Thirty Eight
Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009)
Self-portrait
Self-taught photographer Vivian Maier is the subject of a new documentary Finding Vivian Maier, out this week in the UK. It tells the story of a woman who spent her working life as a nanny; but who spent the rest […]
Week Thirty Seven
Graciela Iturbide (1942 -)
Mujer Ángel, Desierto de Sonora, 1979.
Graciela Iturbide is considered to be one of the most important photographers living and working in Mexico today. She started taking photographs at the age of 27, following the sudden death of her six year old daughter. […]
Week Thirty Six
Dragana Jurisic
Image from YU: The Lost Country
Dragana Jurisic was born in Slavonski Brod, Croatia (then Yugoslavia) and currently lives in Dublin, Ireland. She studied her Masters in Fine Art at the University of Wales, Newport, in 2008 and has recently finished a PhD.
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Week Thirty Five
Duane Michals (1932-)
Dr. Heisenberg’s Magic Mirror of Uncertainty, 1998
Self-taught American photographer Duane Michals fell in love with photography back in 1958 when he borrowed a camera to take on holiday to Russia. During the 1960s and ‘70s his photographic practice pushed the boundaries of the single documentary […]
Week Thirty Four
André Kertész (1894-1985)
The Fork, 1928
Born in Hungary, Kertész was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. Taking along a newly invented hand-held camera, he took photographs of the soldiers away from the fighting, so beginning his focus onto the seemingly unimportant or more mundane […]
Week Thirty Three
Lee Miller (1907-1977)
Portrait of Space, 1937
Born Elizabeth Miller in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1907, Lee Miller had a fascinating life. Incredibly beautiful, she had a successful modelling career, appearing on the cover of American Vogue at the age of twenty. In 1929 she flew to […]