bela kolarova Běla Kolářová belongs to the generation which touched off an iconoclastic revolution and “rearmament” in Czech art during the 1960s. This new wave hit the scene with a program of objective tendencies, proclaiming that art can exist as a...
JACQUES-HENRI LARTIGUE Jacques Henri Lartigue was unknown as a photographer until 1963, when, at 69 years old, his work was shown for the first time in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Much to his surprise, he quickly became one of the...
Helen levitt Once called “the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time,” Helen Levitt received a lot of attention in her prime for her street photography in New York City. Associating early in her career with Walker Evans, Levitt would receive several...
HERBERT LIST Herbert List was a classically educated artist who combined a love of photography with a fascination for surrealism and classicism. List began taking photographs during travels in 1924, almost without any pretensions to art. In 1930, though, his...
Ervin Marton Born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary in 1912, Marton was self-taught in photography but was trained in drawing and sculpture. By the mid-1930s, Paris had become a haven for artists, as well as, a refuge for Jews and other people escaping the violent...
