Referencing the photographs of Edward Curtis, Wilson intends to produce a contemporary visual reimagining of Native American culture through his photographs.
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Sally Mann’s iconic series “Immediate Family” features intimate black-and-white photographs of the artist's children, who eat, sleep, and play in an idyllic Southern landscape.
Sally Mann, Blowing Bubbles
Mofokeng lives in Johannesburg where he began his career as a photojournalist, but has long been engaged with the poetic and symbolic potential of black and white photography.
Figures & Fictions: Santu Mofokeng
Shanghai based photographers Ji Weiyu and Song Tao, aka Birdhead, make art about everyday life in their home town.
Birdhead – ‘We Photograph Things That Are ...
Two important media were intertwined in 1950s Brazil: architecture and photography.
José Yalenti, Architecture or Twilight
At the Telephone reveals Rodchenko's ongoing interest in depicting the rapidly changing world (of newspapers, cameras, and telephones) in new and unexpected ways.
Alexander Rodchenko, At the Telephone
This picture was taken to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s official state visit to the United States in 2007.
Annie Leibovitz, Queen Elizabeth II
The title of the photograph, Joinville Soldier Walking, suggests that this image of lines and dots in wavy bands represents a walking soldier. But how?
Marey, Joinville Soldier Walking
If the repeated face had not been the identifiably famous face of Audrey Hepburn emphatically reproduced by Avedon, this experimental photograph might not still resonate with us in the twenty-first century
Richard Avedon, Audrey Hepburn, New York, January ...
Arndt’s choice to pose herself among so many textures, clothes, and props in Self-Portrait with Veil suggests she was well aware of the power of photography to interrogate gender roles.
Gertrud Arndt, Self-Portrait with Veil
Jacobi seems to have been able to see more facets of Einstein than the editors of Life cared to share with their readership.
Lotte Jacobi, Albert Einstein
Who was this dancer, and why was her body not shown?
Lotte Jacobi, Head of a Dancer
Horst's Mainbocher Corset photograph journeyed across oceans and time to 50 later transform Vogue into a concept and a verb.
Horst P. Horst, Mainbocher Corset, Paris
This is an iconic photo of Cixi, the Empress Dowager of Qing China, in the early 1900s
Xunling, The Empress Dowager Cixi with foreign ...
This photograph of Liliʻuokalani was tied to Hawaiʻi’s international relations, representing the monarchy’s sovereign right to rule for local and global audiences.
Queen Liliʻuokalani’s accession photograph
Hill and Adamson spent considerable time documenting the daily life and activity of the village of Newhaven, making upwards of 130 calotypes during their visits.
David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Newhaven ...
Despite the medium’s infancy, Daumier’s lithograph leads the viewer to believe that 1862 Paris was teeming with photography studios.
Honoré Daumier, Nadar Elevating Photography to the ...
Daguerre’s The Artist’s Studio shows off his new medium’s promise—photography—as an art form.
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, The Artist’s Studio / Still ...
When the first eleven images of Sallie Gardner are seen in rapid succession at a speed of at least 24 frames per second, they allow us to re-experience her run.
Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion
One of the most famous landscape photographs showing the horrible aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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