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Elger Esser is a German landscape photographer, living in Düsseldorf. "He is primarily associated with large-format images of European lowlands with his characteristic low horizon lines, pale luminous colours and vast skies".
Esser's work is held in many public collections such as the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has won the Rheinischer Kunstpreis and the Oskar Schlemmer Prize.
Loretta Lux is a German photographer and artist. She is known for her digitally manipulated portraits of children that blur the line between reality and imagination.
Lux studied painting at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich before turning to photography. Her photographs are meticulously staged and composed, with the use of soft lighting and neutral backgrounds.
Lux's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She has also published several books featuring her work, including "Loretta Lux" and "New Work."
Lux's photographs have sparked controversy and debate, with some critics accusing her of creating disturbing and overly stylized images of children. Despite this, her work has received widespread acclaim for its technical mastery and unique vision.
Robert Longo is an American artist, filmmaker, photographer and musician.
Longo became first well known in the 1980s for his Men in the Cities drawing and print series, which depict sharply dressed men and women writhing in contorted emotion. He lives in New York and East Hampton.
Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter) was a German-Australian photographer. The New York Times described him as a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."
Thomas Struth is a German photographer who is best known for his Museum Photographs series, family portraits and black and white photographs of the streets of Düsseldorf and New York taken in the 1970s. Struth lives and works in Berlin and New York.
Thomas Struth is a German photographer who is best known for his Museum Photographs series, family portraits and black and white photographs of the streets of Düsseldorf and New York taken in the 1970s. Struth lives and works in Berlin and New York.