Marc Riboud

Marc riboud Marc Riboud became interested in photography in 1937, when he took his first photographs with his father’s Vest Pocket Kodak camera. It was not until 1953, however, that he became a full-time photographer. During the intervening years, Riboud studied...

Eugene Richards

EUGENE RICHARDS   Eugene Richards is known for his sensitive but unflinching photo essays published in books and magazines. He has explored topics as diverse as the American family, drug addiction, and river blindness, as well as documented urban and rural...

Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)

Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) Nadar, whose birth name was Gaspard-Felix Tournachon, was born in Paris in 1820 to a printer and shopkeeper. His parents did not marry until he was six years old and his only brother, Adrian, was one. After his father’s death, Nadar...

Jan Saudek

JAN SAUDEK Jan Saudek is considered a leading Czech photographer, best known for his depictions of nudes and youthful figures arranged in dreamlike spaces. His compositions evoke the dramatic tableaus of early photography, with subjects artificially posed in front of...