All photographs copyright Lee Friedlander. “ … photographs are so loaded with information. They’re remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.” Recognized as a master of contemporary photography, Lee Friedlander has always been short on words and “notoriously media shy.” Instead, he speaks through his photographs, which have portrayed America […]
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Despite being born in Switzerland, Robert Frank defined and diagnosed America in the ’50s in ways that his contemporaries couldn’t. While his peers were photographing the optimistic and prosperous 50’s post-war United States, Frank’s photography took a stark and much more realistic turn. Frank’s childhood was difficult – in the 1930s, the fear of Hitler
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It’s been about four months since I last posted some of my photography here. If you’d like to see more of a daily feed, you should check me out on Instagram. I enjoy shooting up until New Years, but always have a very hard time in the bitter cold of January and February when you tense
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All photographs copyright Martin Parr. “Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.” – Martin Parr. On the surface, the work of Martin Parr
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“I was brought up behind the wall and all my life I wanted to get out, and this is the principle of the wall — you know you can’t get out.” – Josef Koudelka The wall and the search for freedom have been the main themes throughout the work of Josef Koudelka. Born in 1938
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