Blog posts and articles by Paula Vellet.
Lillian Bassman’s (1917-2012) fashion photography appeared on the pages of Harper’s Bazaar from the 1940’s to the 1960’s. Her self-taught, experimental and dreamlike approach brought an elegance to fashion photography and elevated it to an art form.
Pioneers of industrial architecture photography, Hilla Becher (1931 – 2015) with partner Bernd, were known for their black and white typology photography.
Coming from a long line of photographers, German-born Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990) was known for her intimate, dramatic and often experimental portraits in the ‘New Vision’ style of the late 1920s and 30s. After fleeing Hitler’s Germany, she re-established herself as a portraitist in New York and moved into abstraction and landscape photography in the 1950s.
Ilse Bing (1899–1998) was a German-born inter-war photographer who worked in photojournalism and portraiture in Paris and New York. She worked in the modernist style and innovated using solarisation and night photography. Her work was featured in MoMA’s first survey exhibition of photography in 1937.
One of America’s foremost street photographers, Helen Levitt captured the energy of the streets of Spanish Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx through her candid, quirkily framed shots of children at play.
Edith Glogau (1898 – 1970) was a student of Madame D’Ora who opened her own Atelier Glogau in Vienna in 1925 when Madame D’Ora went to Paris.
The Bauhaus-trained Austrian designer and artist who was killed in the Holocaust has recently become better known for her painting and art therapy than photography. But in the early 30’s she produced powerful anti-fascist photomontages in a Dadaist style.
Martine Franck was a Belgian-born/British documentary and portrait photographer who was a member of Magnum Photos for over 32 years
From assignments for Life and Time Magazine, Gisèle Freund is most well-known for her candid portraits of literary greats and artists
British photojournalist Penelope Anne (Penny) Tweedie (1940-2011) covered the major political and humanitarian issues of the 60s and 70s with fearless and compassionate images.
