Misty Keasler was born in Texas on April 28, 1978. Misty graduated from Columbia College Chicago with honors in 2001. She received the 2003 Dorthea Lange-Paul Taylor prize. She was named by Photo Distric News as one of the "25 under 25 up-and-coming American photographers". Her work has been collected by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyasoto Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan. Misty lives and works in Dallas, Texas.
Reed Estabrook. earned his BFA in Photography in 1969. In 1971, he earned a MFA in Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was later employed at the University of Illinois.He has taught at the University of Northern Iowa, Kansas City Art Institute and San José State University. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions such as the Museum of Modern Art-NYC, the Art Institute of Chicago, the J Paul Getty Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. My favorite photographs for Reeds are color theory #6.
Pieter Hugo was born in Johannesburg South Africa in 1976. He is known for photographing people that are not viewed as mainstreamed. Pieter's work is known to follow the same style as Diane Arbus and August Sander.
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Ken Fandell was born in 1971 in Evanston, Illinois. He is known works in the mediums of photography, digital collage,text, and video. Fandell began his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara before enrolling at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he completed a BFA in photography in1993. He went on to earn an MFA in photography and new genres at the University of Illinois at Chicago 1996. Ken lives and works in Chicago. I like the fact that you have to look at his art and then say oh no that’s not what I thought it was. I like his photo “Bust” best.
Art wolfe was born in 1951, as the youngest of three children born to a Navy-photographer father and a commercial-artist mother, Wolfe dreamed of becoming a full-time painter, not a photographer. It was at the University of Washington, while majoring in fine arts and art education that he first began experimenting with an old, used camera. Self-taught, he quickly mastered the mechanics of photography which proved to be the perfect medium for him, one which reflected both his strength as a painter and his love of nature and composition. His unique approach to nature photography is based on his training in the arts and his love of the environment. In 2000 Wolfe founded Wildlands Press (WP) to publish The Living Wild. His photographs are recognized throughout the world for their mastery of color, composition, and perspective. Art’s vision and passionate wildlife advocacy affirm his dedication to his work. By employing artistic and journalistic styles, he documents his subjects and educates the viewer. His unique approach to nature photography is based on his training in the arts and his love of the environment. Wolfe spends nearly nine months a year traveling. I can sit all day long and look at his photos, I kind of loose track of time when I look his images.
Jerry Avenaim was born Aug. 21, 1961 in Chicago ill. As a teenager, he got his first camera an all-manual 35mm Exakta. Jerry Avenaim best known for his fashion and celebrity images got his start in photography as assistant to legendary photographer Patrick Demarchelier. Jerry went out on his own in 1985, his first assignment was for a foreign edition Vogue cover of Cindy Crawford. He moved to Los Angeles in 1992, where he is now based. Jerry began photographing celebrities and immediately fell in love with it. Through the years, he has gained the trust of some of the most strong willed celebrities. Throughout his career Jerry Avenaim's photographs have been seen in almost every major magazine worldwide, including Vogue, GQ, Glamour, Vanity Fair and Newsweek. His list of advertising clients have included, Merle Norman Cosmetics, Phat Farm, Guess, Ford Motor Co., McDonalds, Twentieth Century FOX and Warner Bros.
Hellen van Meene was born in 1972 in Alkmaar, Netherlands. Hellen started out studying in Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. She is know for some of her solo shows being in Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Holland; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
Photographer Darryll Schiff's first serious photos were taken in elementary school. Beginning in graphic design he fell in love with the art of photography. Darryll was one of only three undergraduate students represented in the renowned Student Independent Portfolio. After he graduation he worked on commercial photography, shooting assignments for Los Angeles Magazine, Rolling Stone, and many more. Darryll’s has takend photographs of many celebrity. Schiff accepts only a small select number of assignments, spending the vast majority of his time on his fine art photography, where he can focus on the purely artistic aspects of the images Darryll's work appears in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, MOMA New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, George Eastman House, Norton Simon Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and in many private collections. I love looking at his work, he is very talented!
Lothar Osterburg builds miniature models out of salvaged objects. After photographing the tiny constructions, Osterburg prints the images as photogravures. This traditional printmaking process, which involves etching the photographic image into a copper plate, has a wide range of continuous black and gray tones and a textured quality that compliments the rough fabrication of Osterburg's models. He was born in 1961. I like his work because it like you’re in a dream like state and his prints are relaxing to look at.
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