Reportage 20th century
Ike Altgens, born James William Altgens, was an American photojournalist, photo editor and reporter for the Associated Press (AP).
After graduating from North Dallas High School, James joined the Associated Press, first as a reporter and in 1940 he was assigned to the photojournalism staff. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II and returned to the Associated Press in 1945 as a photographer, working as an editor and part-time actor and model.
On November 22, 1963, Altgens was assigned to photograph President John F. Kennedy during his visit to Dallas. And as fate would have it, he was able to take historic photos of the Kennedy assassination, which appeared in newspapers around the world the next day.
Altgens left the Associated Press in 1979, then worked on advertising for Ford Motor Company. On December 12, 1995, James Altgens and his wife were found dead in different rooms of their home in Dallas. According to the investigation, the cause of their deaths was carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty furnace.
Roger Ballen is an American and South African photographer who lives and works in Johannesburg.
Roger Ballen studied psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and this specialty helps him to better comprehend and study the world around him. Travels around the world brought him to South Africa, which has become his new home.
Ballen is one of the latest photographers to shoot exclusively in black and white, approaching forms of minimalism.
Tilo Baumgärtel is a German artist who lives and works in Leipzig.
His paintings go back to the works of social realism and large-format propaganda posters. The artist works with a variety of mediums and techniques. In addition to painting, he also uses lithography, drawings on paper, and video. Pictorial space and the creation of sometimes surrealistic landscapes is one of his central themes.
Tilo Baumgärtel also collaborates with theaters, developing sets and videos on scenography.
Armin Boehm is a German artist who lives and works in Berlin.
In his works, Boehm explores the connections between the urban and natural environments of modern man. He creates a fantastic urban space filled with cyborgs, politicians and flowers. In the collage technique the artist combines fragments of color, fabric, paper or metal substances from which his paintings grow. He mixes elements of pop culture and art history, architecture and literature, contemporary politics and fantasy.
Édouard Boubat was a French photojournalist and art photographer.
In 1943, he was subjected to service du travail obligatoire, forced labour of French people in Nazi Germany, and witnessed some of the horrors of World War II. He took his first photograph after the war in 1946 and was awarded the Kodak Prize the following year. He travelled internationally for the French magazine Réalités, where his colleague was Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, and later worked as a freelance photographer. French poet Jacques Prévert called him a "peace correspondent" as he was humanist, apolitical and photographed uplifting subjects.
Miguel Rio Branco, full name Miguel da Silva Paranhos do Rio Branco, is a Brazilian photographer, artist, director and creator of multimedia installations.
His father was a diplomat and as a child Miguel lived in Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and the USA, now living and working in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After earning a degree in photography from the New York Institute of Photography, Miguel first worked as a cameraman and then worked with the Magnum agency. Miguel is known for exploring and crossing two different art forms: painting and photography. He has also shot 14 short films and eight long films, he is recognized in the world as one of the best color photojournalists.
Miguel Rio Branco's photographs are part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Raymond Redvers Briggs was a British writer, illustrator, and cartoonist.
A professional illustrator, he worked on the design of children's books. In the 1960s, Briggs discovered his talent and ability to combine words and pictures, using a form of strip cartooning that defined his later work.
Briggs is best known for his wordless book The Snowman, published in 1978, a sort of cute children's tale but with deep meaning. The animated and musical versions of this book are popular in Britain and are shown annually at Christmas.
Robert Byron was a British traveler, writer, historian and art historian.
Byron studied at Merton College (Oxford), in his final year of university he traveled to Greece and described it in the book "Europe in the looking glass" (1926). The work "Station. Athos, Treasures and People" (1928) focuses on the monasteries of Mount Athos, and "Byzantine Achievements" (1929) on classical Greek culture, Byzantine art and architecture. Byron's other publications include Essays on India (1931) and First Russia, Then Tibet (1933).
In the early 1930s, Robert Byron traveled extensively in India, Persia, Tibet, Russia, and elsewhere. His most famous work is The Road to Oxiana (1937), which was written after traveling from Italy to India and is devoted to researching the origins of Islamic architecture. The route took him through Palestine, Syria, and Iraq, after which Byron visited Kermanshah, Tehran, Tabriz, Mashad, Herat, Isfahan, Shiraz, Persepolis, Sultania, Mazare Sharif, Kabul, and others. This book is based on his diaries and combines erudition and fascination. An aesthete and architectural art historian, Byron described the region's great Islamic monuments in elegant, lexically rich prose. He also took his own photographs. This photographic archive is now in the Conway Library of the Courtauld Institute in London and is of great value.
Talented and versatile, full of strength Robert Byron died at the age of 36, when the ship on which he was traveling to Cairo as a special war correspondent, was hit by a German U-boat torpedo off the northern coast of Scotland.
Andrzej Cisowski is a Polish multimedia artist and graphic artist.
Cisowski graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and was initially associated with the Neue Wilde movement (Neo-Fauvism). Over time he developed his own individual style on the border of figurative painting and new expression. The artist also created paintings based on old photographs.
Henry Dieckmann was a German self-taught painter known for his genre naive paintings.
After World War II, Dieckmann worked at the German Federal Railroad factory in Verden and observed life around him. His paintings are imbued with nostalgia for the recent past; they illustrate the everyday life of ordinary people in their spare time with typical European cityscapes.
Jörg Döring is a German mixed media artist, one of Germany's leading neo-pop artists. Using screen printing, silkscreening, photo collage, acrylic, spray paint and oil on canvas, Döring depicts various comic, cartoon characters and pop icons. The source materials for his work are photographs, books, old magazines, drafts, print samples, packaging, sketches and more, from which he creates large-scale and multimedia works.
Armen Eloyan is an Armenian-born painter who lives and works in Zurich. He is known for his large-scale, hooligan depictions of anthropomorphic animals and figures, absurdist narratives in dark, existential works. His creations are inspired by caricature and street art, as well as by European masters.
Arthur (Usher) Fellig, known by his pseudonym Weegee, was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography in New York City.
Weegee worked in Manhattan's Lower East Side as a press photographer during the 1930s and 1940s and developed his signature style by following the city's emergency services and documenting their activity. Much of his work depicted unflinchingly realistic scenes of urban life, crime, injury and death. Weegee published photographic books and also worked in cinema, initially making his own short films and later collaborating with film directors such as Jack Donohue and Stanley Kubrick.
Paul Flora was an Austrian cartoonist, graphic artist, and illustrator known for his skill with pen and ink.
Flora's work has appeared in the famous New York Times and The Observer newspapers, and his drawings have graced the stamps of Liechtenstein and Austria. Paul Flora has been one of Europe's most famous illustrators since the 1960s.
He also produced books, films and sets.
Hans Fronius was an Austrian painter and illustrator. His work is considered an example of "expressive realism," and he painted portraits, street scenes, and literary interpretations. Fronius was one of the first to illustrate stories by Franz Kafka, as well as works by Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Fritz Genkinger is a German artist, member of the German Association of Artists.
He participated in the 1972 Munich Olympics as a draughtsman and designed the posters for the World Championships.
A versatile creator, Genkinger was, among other things, fascinated by Bettingen marble, from which he even carved clear-sounding stone flutes.
David Goldblatt was a South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of apartheid. After apartheid had ended he concentrated more on the country's landscapes. What differentiates Goldblatt's body of work from those of other anti-apartheid artists is that he photographed issues that went beyond the violent events of apartheid and reflected the conditions that led up to them.
William Gropper was an American cartoonist, lithographer, and graphic artist who studied under Robert Henry and George Bellows. As a socialist, he spent his life creating satirical images about greed and exploitation, war, and prejudice. The artist visited the USSR in the 1920s, and the main subjects of his work in the 1930s were the international labor movement and anti-fascist cartoons. He collaborated with many Communist-oriented American publications. Glopper is known not only for his caricatures, but also for his book illustrations, posters, monumental and easel paintings.
Albert Guillaume was a French artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and master of the poster.
Guillaume was a prolific illustrator: he worked for magazines, books, and almanacs, and his satirical drawings were published in Parisian humor magazines. He was also a painter and designer of theater posters and advertising posters. Working for the large Parisian printing company Camis, he designed a series of highly successful posters for commercial goods.
Halas and Batchelor Animation, Ltd. is a British animation company founded in 1940 that became the largest animation studio in Great Britain. It operated until 1986.
The company was founded by John Halas (April 16, 1912 - January 21, 1995) and Joy Batchelor (May 12, 1914 - May 14, 1991). The company's productions were designed for the international level, and war information and propaganda films were made here. Halas and Batchelor's most famous work is the 1954 film Animal Farm, an animated version of George Orwell's novel Animal Farm. It was England's first full-length color cartoon and was funded by the CIA as part of the American anti-communist campaign during the Cold War.
Many later cartoons, documentaries and educational shorts were commissioned from the studio specifically for television. In 1972 Halas became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist, Southern writer and folklorist, abolitionist, and author of Uncle Remus's Tales.
Joel was a very inquisitive and witty child, reading a great deal. From the age of 13 he worked as a typesetter and then as a reporter for several newspapers; in 1876 he became deputy editor at Atlanta Construction, where he worked for 24 years. As a journalist, Harris was an active abolitionist, advocating for black rights and against slavery.
At Atlanta Construction, Harris began publishing his now-famous Uncle Remus stories, using folklore he had heard from black workers on the plantation. These tales made Joel Harris famous and earned him a firm place in the classics of American literature. The general outline of the series of stories was simple: Uncle Remus, a wise and good-natured old black man, tells stories about Brother Rabbit, Brother Fox and other animals to the plantation owner's young son - through his prism of worldview.
Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings was first published in book form in 1880, and others followed. Harris also wrote six children's books set on a Georgia plantation, several novels and novellas.
Wolfgang Herzig was an Austrian painter and sculptor known for his critical portrayal of social realities. In his figurative paintings he draws attention to human weaknesses in everyday life.
There is a sense of social criticism in Herzig's work, but he never turns his characters into caricatures. Over time, the artist came to a peculiar two-dimensional form of plastics.
Robert Hill Jackson or Bob Jackson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photographer.
Robert attended Southern Methodist University while pursuing a passion for photography. While serving in the National Guard, Jackson became a photographer for an Army general. In 1960, he began working as a photo reporter for the Dallas Times Herald newspaper.
On November 22, 1963, Jackson was assigned to cover President John F. Kennedy's arrival at Love Field and his motorcade through the city. He witnessed Kennedy's assassination, but did not have time to film it. Two days later, however, he was able to photograph the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Lee Harvey Oswald, by Jack Ruby in the garage of the Dallas police station. Robert Jackson was awarded the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Photography for these photographs.
Wilhelm Kaufmann is an Austrian artist who has been called the master of the moment.
He studied at the Imperial Royal Academy of Fine Arts, then worked as a painter and track and field athlete at the same time. Kaufmann used color dynamics to masterfully depict momentary scenes of athletes' movements during competitions. He also painted colorful still lifes, landscapes and portraits.
Wilhelm Kaufmann was a member of the Professional Association of Austrian Visual Artists, the Sonderbund of Austrian Artists, the Vienna Art Association and the Vienna Hagenbund, the Vienna Secession and the Vienna Society of Artists, Künstlerhaus.
André Kertész, born Andor Kertész, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism.
William Klein was an American-born French photographer and filmmaker noted for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the context of photojournalism and fashion photography. He was ranked 25th on Professional Photographer's list of 100 most influential photographers.
Klein trained as a painter, studying under Fernand Léger, and found early success with exhibitions of his work. He soon moved on to photography and achieved widespread fame as a fashion photographer for Vogue and for his photo essays on various cities. He directed feature-length fiction films, numerous short and feature-length documentaries and produced over 250 television commercials.
Kriki, real name Christian Valée, is a French artist and musician who represents the punk culture in French contemporary art.
In his youth he created the electro-punk band Les Envahisseurs, and from 1984 he participated in the birth of street art.
In 1985 Kriki invents Fuzz, a half-robot, half-polymorphic fetish that appears as a virus that infects art history, and a sample of which will be published in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.
Titina Maselli is an Italian pop-art artist and stage designer.
Born into a creative family, she has lived and worked in Rome, Paris and New York.
Maselli's works futuristically depict the modern dynamic life of big cities with their skyscrapers, nighttime traffic lights and neon signs. In Titina Maselli's cities athletes compete, cyclists race, boxers fight furiously - the artist was able to portray all this best in pop-art style.
Titina Maselli has also worked as a stage designer, creating sets and costumes for famous theatrical productions.
Stefan Moses was a German photographer living in Munich.
His documentary portraits of people and professions in West Germany (Germans) and later in East Germany (Farewell and Beginnings) made him accessible to a large audience. Moses took people out of their working environment and photographed them in front of a grey linen cloth — thus creating contemporary documents.
Richard Mosse is an Irish conceptual documentary photographer living in New York and Ireland.
He has a BA from King's College London and an MA in Photography from Yale University and has worked in Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, Haiti and the former Yugoslavia. Moss' photographs and films document armed conflicts, humanitarian crises and environmental crimes.
Moss works to visualize events, technologies and systems that often remain invisible, using a camera equipped with thermal imaging technology that obscures, abstracts and brings violence to the fore.
Magdalo Mussio is an Italian artist, animator, editor and writer.
In painting he created abstract landscapes and participated in many exhibitions in Italy. In the 1960s he worked as an editor for several Italian cultural publications. Mussio was also the creative artist of a number of animated films and published several books about his work.
Carmen Oberst is a German artist, graphic designer and photographer.
She has lived in Hamburg since 1980 and works as an independent photographic artist, curator and teacher of design using photographic media.
Carmen Oberst originally worked as a graphic designer. Since 1997 she has been active in photography and experimental film, holding numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. Back in the 1980s, she developed her own visual language based on analog black and white photography and photoalchemical experiments. And in 1996 she founded PHOTO.KUNST.RAUM, a center for fine art photography and fine art known outside Hamburg.
Carmen Oberst turns the world into a stage: she routinely uses found events and randomly present people to create a fantastical production from the group of works "Rods of Imagination - On the Road" through the medium of photography.
Serban Savu is a Romanian artist living and working in Cluj, Romania.
He is one of the main representatives of the so-called Cluj School of painting. Savu is known for his figurative paintings depicting the life of Romanians today: how people work and rest, go on dates, grieve and rejoice. The artist also depicts the consequences of the social and economic crisis in the country.
Rainer W. Schlegelmilch is a German motorsport photographer and photojournalist.
He studied at the Bavarian State College of Photography in Munich and already presented his work from motor racing at his graduation in 1962. Since then, this sport has been the main subject of Schlegelmilch's work. In 1964 he opened his own studio in Frankfurt for photo design and advertising photography.
The series of photographs of Formula One and FIA championships, which Schlegelmilch began in 1962, represent one of the most extensive collections of photographic material in the history of motor racing. His archive contains more than 600,000 images, which were black and white until 1970 and then color.
Schlegelmilch has published some 40 illustrated books on motorsport and calendars from various racing series, and has participated in exhibitions around the world. For his unique skill he is called "the eye of Formula 1", and Bernie Ecclestone many years ago gave him a press pass valid until the end of his life. Brands such as Ferrari, Porsche, BMW, Mercedes and Aston Martin have used his work for luxury publications.
Dayanita Singh is an Indian photographer whose primary format is the book. She has published fourteen books.
Singh's art reflects and expands on the ways in which people relate to photographic images. Her later works, drawn from her extensive photographic oeuvre, are a series of mobile museums allowing her images to be endlessly edited, sequenced, archived and displayed. Stemming from her interest in the archive, the museums present her photographs as interconnected bodies of work that are full of both poetic and narrative possibilities.
Jakob Sollberger is a Swiss painter and graphic artist, sculptor, photographer and video director.
Initially Jakob was very interested in video and photography, and at the age of 26 he founded his own studio for advertising photography and production of industrial films and TV commercials. A few years later he took up other art forms as well.
Since the early 1990s, Sollberger has taught photography courses at the Zurich Education Center and has created many photographic portraits. In recent years, Jakob Sollberger has also worked on short films on various subjects.
Philip "Snapdragon" Stern was an American photographer noted for his iconic portraits of Hollywood stars, as well as his war photography while serving as a U.S. Army Ranger with "Darby's Rangers" during the North African and Italian campaigns in World War II.
Gustav Traub is a German painter, graphic artist and illustrator.
After studying at the Karlsruhe Art Academy, Gustav Traub lived for a long time in Munich, where he created most of his landscapes of Upper Bavaria.
During World War II he participated in large exhibitions in Germany, where Hitler purchased some of Traub's paintings. He was also awarded the title of professor. In addition to his landscapes, Gustav Traub made many chalk drawings and book illustrations.
Wil van der Laan is a Dutch painter and sculptor.
His paintings and sculptures are very expressive and dynamic. Wil van der Laan masterfully depicts in his style the tensions of sports moments, the beauty of the Malian peoples, the power of the bulls' movement and the serenity of the resting cheetahs.
The sculptures of van der Laan can be seen not only in private collections, but also in public places in the Netherlands.
Renzo Vespignani was an Italian painter, printmaker, and illustrator, co-founder of II Pro e II Contro (Pro and Con), which sought to develop new directions in neo-realism. Vespignani's 1944 drawings realistically depicted the destruction of German-occupied Rome. He also illustrated works by Boccaccio, Kafka, and T. S. Eliot.
David Yarrow is a British photographer, conservationist and writer.
At the beginning of his career Yarrow photographed sports stars, at the age of only 20 he took the iconic picture of soccer player Diego Maradona, but then he found his niche. David Yarrow reinvented wildlife photography with his extraordinary patience and, most importantly, his reverence for it. Yarrow's black-and-white wildlife photographs with stars such as Cindy Crawford and Cara Delevingne have brought him ever-growing popularity among collectors. Today he is the best-selling photographic artist in the world.
Yarrow is also active in his charity work for the protection of wildlife.