Imogen Cunningham was one of the most creative, versatile, influential and possibly underappreciated and underrated photographers of the 20th Century. Born in 1883, her career extended into the 1970s, yet it was only late in life that she began to receive the recognition that her male contemporaries and colleagues had been afforded decades earlier. A […]
Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency has become an iconic touchpoint in documentary photography. Deeply personal, the book is once again available in print with an updated afterword by Goldin.
In 1967, the Museum of Modern Art in New York unveiled "New Documents." It featured the work of three photographers who would became significant and influential artists of the 20th Century – Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand. It was the only major exhibition of Arbus' work in her lifetime. Unfortunately, no exhibition catalogue […]
Many Americans are familiar with Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" image from the Farm Security Administration, but fellow FSA and Office of War Information photographers Marion Post Wolcott and Esther Bubley are, unfortunately, much less known.
