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Anders Petersen
Anders Petersen was born 1944 in Stockholm, Sweden. 14 years old his family moved to Karlstad in Värmland, where he met the artists Karin Bodland and Lars Sjögren. In 1961 he stayed for some time in Hamburg in order to learn German and trying to write and paint. He didn’t take any pictures.
William Klein
New York native William Klein's innovative view of camera processes has challenged prevailing notions of "good photography." He graduated from high school at age fourteen and was enrolled at the City College of New York when he joined the Army in 1945. After his demobilization in Paris, he stayed to study art with Fernand Léger, and while there he met several other artists...
Bruce Davidson
Bruce Davidson began taking photographs at the age of ten in Oak Park, Illinois. While attending Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University, he continued to further his knowledge and develop his passion. He was later drafted into the army and stationed near Paris. There he met Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the founders of the Magnum Photos.
Rino Barillari
Saverio Barillari (known as Rino) was born on February 8, 1945 in Limbadi, Calabria. At the age of 14, he left his country and his family to seek his fortune in Rome. With the first earnings he buys a used camera: a Comet Bencini. He began the profession of "paparazzo" by selling the photos of the protagonists of the Dolce Vita to news agencies such as Ansa, Associated Press and UPI.
Thomas Hoepker
Thomas Hoepker started taking pictures when he was 16 when he received an old 9x12 glass camera from his grandfather. He developed his prints in his family's kitchen and bathroom and started earning some money by selling photos to friends and classmates. From 1960 to 1963 he worked as a photographer for Münchner Illustrierte and Kristall.
Martha Cooper
Martha Cooper is a documentary photographer who has specialized in shooting graffiti and street art for over thirty-five years. Her books include Subway Art, a collaboration with Henry Chalfant, R.I.P.: Memorial Wall Art, Hip Hop Files 1980-1984, We B*Girlz, Street Play, New York State of Mind, Tag Town, Going Postal, and Tokyo Tattoo 1970. She lives in Manhattan but can frequently be found at street art festivals worldwide. You can follow her travels on Instagram @marthacoopergram.
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon (1923–2004) was born and lived in New York City. His interest in photography began at an early age, and he joined the Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMHA) camera club when he was twelve years old. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he co-edited the school’s literary magazine, The Magpie, with James Baldwin. He was named Poet Laureate of New York City High Schools in 1941.
Kenneth Cappello
As a restless teenager in Houston in the 80s, Kenneth Cappello thrived on unbridled adventure and risktaking. Before long, he made friends with the local misfits and skateboarding and punk. “It was what we lived for,” describes Cappello. “It was life; it was ‘skate or die!” It was also around that time that his dad bought him a cheap point and shoot camera to keep him busy. For the hell of it, Cappello starting taking pictures wherever he went with his friends.
Danny Lyon
Brooklyn native Danny Lyon received a BA in history in 1963 from the University of Chicago, where he served as staff photographer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. A self-taught photographer, he traveled with the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle club in 1965-1966 and published his pictures of the club members as The Bikeriders (1968). Since 1967 he has been an independent photographer and an associate at Magnum, and he has made films since 1969.
Pasquale De Antonis
Pasquale De Antonis was born in Teramo in 1908 and died in Rome in 2001. After his childhood in Teramo, he moved with his family to Pescara and devoted himself professionally to photography since the early 1930s. In the two-year period 1936 - 1937 he attended the Experimental Center of Cinematography in Rome and in 1939 he moved permanently to Rome where he took over the studio of the photographer Arturo Bragaglia in Piazza di Spagna.
Michael Donovan
Michael Donovan is an image maker towing the line between art and commerce. His iconic images cut through the noise via their graphic nature. Donovan’s primary modalities are photography, video, and illustration.
Miron Zownir
Hailed by Terry Southern as the "Poet of Radical Photography" Miron Zownir's photographic work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in several countries from 1981 on. Some of his photographs were shown amongst artworks of the likes of Goya, Picasso, Alfred Kubin and Cindy Sherman in the exhibition ‘El salvaie europeo’ (2004) in Barcelona and Valencia.
Elisabetta Catalano
Elisabetta Catalano lived and worked in Rome. Considered one of the greatest witnesses to the work and lives of artists and other important cultural figures in Italy from the 1970s onward, Elisabetta became a portrait photographer of international fame.
Glen E. Friedman
Glen E. Friedman’s work has appeared in countless publications and exhibitions and is part of permanent collections, including those at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., among others.
Boris Mikhailov
Boris Mikhailov was born in Ukraine in 1938. His challenging and provocative photographs document human casualties in post-communist Eastern Europe after the demise of the Soviet Union.
Paolo Pellegrin
Paolo Pellegrin is one of the world’s leading photojournalists who has documented many of this generation’s major disasters and conflicts, from revolutions to wars to tsunamis.
