Architecture photography 20th century
Berndt Becher was a German conceptual photographer. Becher is well known for his industrial photography.
Together with his wife and collaborator Hilla Becher won the Erasmus Prize and the Hasselblad Prize. In the mid-1970s the Bechers founded the Düsseldorf School of Photography.
Hilla Becher (née Wobeser) was a German conceptual photographer. Becher was well known for her industrial photographs, or typologies, with longtime collaborator and husband, Bernd Becher. Her career spanned more than 50 years and included photographs from the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Italy.
Becher, alongside her husband, received the Erasmus Prize and the Hasselblad Award. The Bechers founded the Düsseldorf School of Photography in the mid-1970s.
Margaret Bourke-White was an American photographer and photojournalist. She studied photography at the Clarence H. White School of Photography. White, where she developed her trademark style using dramatic angles and strong contrasts of light and shadow.
Burke-White was one of the first women photographers to work for Life magazine, and her images became synonymous with the magazine's coverage of major world events such as World War II and the Korean War. She was also the first woman photographer to work in war zones during World War II, where she captured powerful images of warfare and its impact on civilians.
In addition to war photography, Bourke-White also documented the Great Depression in the United States and was one of the few photographers to gain access to the Soviet Union in the 1930s where she documented Soviet industrialization and the lives of ordinary people.
Bourke-White's work was known for its powerful impact and stark realism. She often risked her safety to get the perfect shot and her images continue to inspire photographers today. She published several books of her work, including 'Eyes on Russia' and 'Dear Fatherland, Rest in Peace'.
Bourke-White left behind a legacy as one of the greatest photojournalists of the 20th century.
Ahmet Ertug is a Turkish architectural photographer and publisher.
He was trained as an architect at the Architectural School of the Architectural Association in London, but developed a passion for photography.
Researching traditional architecture in Japan, Ertug traveled extensively throughout the country and photographed ancient temples, Zen gardens, and traditional festivals. Ertug photographed many of Istanbul's architectural and archaeological structures with Ottoman, Roman and Catholic influences. He founded a publisher of fine art books, and his national fame increased dramatically when he began publishing his photographs in lavish art books. Since then, Ertug's publishing house has published more than 30 such collections. Ertug has also photographed extensively the famous American libraries.
Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger was an American photographer and a writer on photographic technique. He was noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan and for studies of the structures of natural objects.
Andreas Gursky, a German photographer born in 1955, is renowned for his large format architectural and landscape color photographs, which often feature a high vantage point. Gursky's work has garnered attention for its unique perspective on modern life and contemporary scenes, capturing the grandeur and intricacy of his subjects with a meticulous eye for detail. His pieces, such as "Rhein II" and "99 Cent II Diptychon," showcase his skill in transforming ordinary locales into extraordinary visual narratives, often with the aid of digital manipulation to enhance and refine the final image.
Andreas Gursky's photography is celebrated for its ability to capture the essence of globalization and the human impact on the environment, presenting scenes that are both familiar and alien in their scope and detail. His work has been exhibited worldwide and is held in high esteem in the art market, with some of his pieces achieving record-breaking auction prices.
For art collectors and experts, Andreas Gursky's photographs offer a profound commentary on the world we live in, blending technical prowess with a deep conceptual framework. His exhibitions and publications provide insight into his creative process and the evolution of his artistic vision.
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Todd Hido is an American photographer and artist. He is best known for his moody and atmospheric photographs of suburban landscapes and homes, which often convey a sense of loneliness and isolation.
Hido's photographic style is characterized by his use of muted colors, soft lighting, and blurred images. He often photographs interiors and exteriors of homes at night, creating a dreamlike and eerie mood. His work is also known for its cinematic quality, and many of his images evoke the mood of film noir.
Hido's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, and his photographs have been published in numerous books and magazines. He has received many awards for his work, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Hido's legacy as an artist and photographer continues to influence new generations of photographers and artists. His moody and evocative style has had a significant impact on the field of contemporary photography and has helped to redefine the way that we think about suburban landscapes and the concept of home.
Candida Höfer is a German photographer. She is a former student of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Like other Becher students, Höfer's work is known for technical perfection and a strictly conceptual approach. From 1997 to 2000, she taught as professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe. Höfer is the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Contribution to Photography award, as part of the Sony World Photography awards. She is based in Cologne.
Ralf Kaspers is a contemporary German photographer.
He is attracted by monumental themes (nature, cityscapes, architecture) as well as ornamental microcosm consisting of countless combinations of identical small objects.
The constant change of themes and subjects allows the author to explore in detail the most important artistic categories such as form, texture and rhythm.
Klaus Kinold is a German architectural photographer.
Klaus Kinold studied architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe with Egon Eiermann, and then decided not to build but to show architecture. He opened an architectural photography studio in Munich and studied panoramic photography. For more than 25 years, Kinold was editor and illustrator of the Swiss professional publication KS Neues, which featured silicate brick buildings, and lectured on photography at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.
In 1983, Klaus Kinold had his first solo exhibition at the Rudolf Kieken Gallery in Cologne, followed by many other prestigious shows. From 2019 to August 2020, the DKM Museum in Duisburg designed the exhibition "Architecture through the eyes of a photographer", featuring the work of architects Carlo Scarpa, Rudolf Schwarz and Hans Döllgast.
Kinold documented almost all of the famous architects' projects. It was important to the photographer that his preferably black and white photographs were clear, objective, rational and factual in their presentation.
Angela Lo Priore is an Italian portrait photographer living and working in Rome and Milan.
Women are one of the main subjects of Angela's photographs, but scenic design plays an important role here, helping to create surrealistic subjects.
Having experimented with different forms of photography in architecture, advertising and fashion, Angela Lo Priore has found her true artistic expression in portraiture. The portraits of stars and divas of Italian and world cinema are her most famous works. The result of this work is the book "One Hundred Portraits", a gallery of one hundred stunning photographic portraits of famous actors, actresses and directors.
Vera Lutter is a German artist based in New York City. She works with several forms of digital media, including photography, projections, and video-sound installations. Through a multitude of processes, Lutter's oeuvre focuses on light and its ability to articulate the passing time and movement within a tangible image.
Russell Maltz is a conceptual sculptor, artist and photographer living and working in New York, USA.
Maltz creates work using a wide range of materials, from concrete cinder blocks, glass and clothespins to found wood panels, PVC pipes, paper and swimming pool; he collaborates with construction companies and enjoys photographing art-like industrial trash.
The artist paints the plywood panels in part monochrome and then assembles sculptural objects from them, with some parts visible and others hidden. Maltz also finds abandoned and unseen building materials, which he transforms into works of art with paint and minimal intervention.
Robert Polidori is a Canadian-American photographer known for his large-scale color images of architecture, urban environments and interiors. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Martin-Gropius-Bau museum (Berlin), and Instituto Moreira Salles (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro). His photographs are also included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), New Orleans Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Château de Versailles, Centre Pompidou (Paris), and Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), as well as many private collections.
August Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer. Sander's first book Face of our Time (German: Antlitz der Zeit) was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century".
Karl Hugo Schmölz was a German photographer.
In collaboration with the great Rhineland architects of his time, including Adolf Abel, Bruno Pohl, Dominik Böhm, Gottfried Böhm, Hermann von Berg, Wilhelm Riefan, Rudolf Schwarz, Hans Schilling, Joachim Schürmann, he created an impressive series of images of the post-war architecture of Cologne. The compilations included shots of architecture, interiors and the city at night. In addition, Schmölz worked with various companies on advertising, especially in the furniture industry.
Minor Martin White was an American photographer, theoretician, critic, and educator. He combined an intense interest in how people viewed and understood photographs with a personal vision that was guided by a variety of spiritual and intellectual philosophies. Starting in Oregon in 1937 and continuing until he died in 1976, White made thousands of black-and-white and color photographs of landscapes, people, and abstract subject matter, created with both technical mastery and a strong visual sense of light and shadow. He taught many classes, workshops, and retreats on photography at the California School of Fine Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, other schools, and in his own home. He lived much of his life as a closeted gay man, afraid to express himself publicly for fear of loss of his teaching jobs, and some of his most compelling images are figure studies of men whom he taught or with whom he had relationships. He helped start, and for many years was editor of, the photography magazine Aperture. After his death in 1976, White was hailed as one of America's greatest photographers.
