Max Dupain

Posted on 03/04/2012 by

We stay with Australian photographers for now, and one of the most significant names from that country is that of Max Dupain. Max was a master of black and whites, and even though color photography came up while he was still at the peak of his career, he never made the switch. He believed, like a lot of other photographers who lived through the transition years, that black and white was more objective, atmospheric and allowed the viewer more scope for interpretation. Continue reading →

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Art Wolfe

Posted on 08/16/2011 by

Art WolfeRobert Redford has used three words to describe Art Wolfe’s photography: breathtaking, overwhelming and vast. One could easily add dramatic and poignant to those list of adjectives, and perhaps even more, since every photograph tells a different story. Indeed, it would be difficult to bracket Art Wolfe’s style and range. In a 30-year career photographing wildlife, natural landscapes and disappearing cultures, Art Wolfe has produced compositions that are strikingly original in their perspective and their vivid depiction of color and contrasts. Continue reading →

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Joe Rosenthal

Posted on 08/06/2011 by

It is hard to sum up a photographer’s entire career in a single image, but sometimes a single image turns out to be so powerful and iconic that it overshadows everything else that an artist may have achieved in his career, and long outlives his memory. This is exactly what has happened with Joe Rosenthal.

He is simply identified as the man who clicked Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, a picture of the American flag being hoisted at Iwo Jima, Japan, towards the end of World War II. It was a historical moment so dramatically captured that it is perhaps the most recognizable photograph anywhere in the world.
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Bill Brandt

Posted on 07/22/2011 by

Bill Brandt is one of the best known English photographers, and he is most famous for his artistic nudes, his pictures of the British landscape (including streets and cities) and his shots of life in English society. He lived through the era of transition from black and white to color photography, but like several other contemporaries, he always preferred the visual strength of black and whites.
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