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- Born 23rd May, 1952 -
He has a wife 'Susan Mitchell' and a child together 'Ellen Parr'.
Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and phonebook collector. He is known for his photographic projects hat take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life.
Martin Parr's major projects have been:
Rural Communities (1975 - 85)
The Last Resort (1983 - 85)
The Cost Of Living (1987 - 89)
Small World (1987 - 94)
Common Sense (1995 - 99)
Since 1994, Parr has been a member of the Magnum Photos, he has around 40 solo phonebooks published and has featured in around 80 exhibitions worldwide, including the international touring exhibition.
Martin parr has used a Nikon 60mm macro lens combined with a SB29 ring flash. For his early black and white photographs he used a Leica M3 with a 35mm lens then when he moved to a 6/7cm in The Last Resort it was a Makina Plaubel with a 55mm lens.He later bought a standard lens plaubel and he now has a Mamiya 7's.
- Born March 14th, 1923 -
- Died July 26th, 1971 -
~ Death by suicide ~
She had a husband called Allan Arbus and they both had two daughters together Doon Arbus and Amy Arbus.
Diane Arbus was an American photographer who photographed marginalised people - dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers and others whose normality was perceived by the vernal population as 'ugly' or 'surreal'.
Diane's work has been described as consisting of formal manipulation characterised by blatant sensationalism.
Arbus became the first American photographer to have photographs displayed at the Venice Biennale.
Millions of people traveled to just view her work in exhibitions during the period of 1972 - 1979, theres was a book which accompanied the exhibition 'Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph' which was edited by Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel and first published in 1972 and was still in print in 2006 and had become the best selling photography monograph ever.
Diane Arbus was well known for using a TLR Rolleiflex 6x6 camera for the majority of her work however later in her career she began to use mamiya cameras of the same style, sticking to the square format.
Diane Arbus
Martin Parr
Cindy Sherman
- Born January 19th, 1954 -
Married director Michel Auder became a step-mother to Alexandra and her half-sister Gaby, but they divorced in 1999 but she began a new relationship with the artist David Byrne between 1991 - 2005.
Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and a film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. In 1995 she was the recipient of MacArthur Fellowship.
Cindy Sherman enrolled onto the visual arts department at Buffalo State College in 1972, she began painting but during this time Cindy began to explore the ideas which later became a hallmark of her work - Dressing up as different characters - She abandoned it due to frustration and took up photography instead and started to photograph herself
Shermans first solo show in New York was presented at a non-commercial space called the kitchen in 1990, when the Metro Pictures Gallery opened later that year, Cindy Shermans photographs were the first show.
It doesn't specify what camera Cindy Sherman used so im guessing she's used a variety of different types of lens to achieve the images she desires.
Robert Capa
- Born October 22nd, 1913 -
- Died May 25th, 1954 -
Robert Capa was a Hungarian War photographer and photo journalist - he was the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history, he fled political repression in Hungary when he was a teenager which he then moved to Berlin where he enrolled to college.
Capa witnessed the rise of Hitler which led him to move to Paris where he completely changed his name and became a photojournalist.
Robert covered 5 wars:
The Spanish Civil War
The Second Sino-Japanese War
World War 2
The 1948 Arab-Israeli War
First Indochina War.
Robert Capas photos were published in major magazines and newspapers.
During Roberts career he risked his life, he was the only civilian photographer landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day.
Robert documented the course of World War 2 all across Europe:
London
North Africa
Italy
Liberation of Paris
His friends and colleagues who went with him included Irwin Shaw, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway and Director John Huston. He was later rewarded the Medal of Freedom by the U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and during the same year Robert co-founded Magnum photos in Paris which was the first Co-Operative agency for worldwide freelance photographer.
The most widely known camera used by Robert Capa was his Leica 35mm, and during World War II and after, Capa used a Contax brand camera. On the day he died, the cameras Robert Capa was using were a Contax and a Nikon S 50mm, which is sometimes on display at exhibitions with bloodstains on them.
Magnum Photos
Magnum Photos is a co-operative owned and run by those who are members in the photography community, they undergo a process of self-selection to be able to become full time members within magnum photographers, the members all come together at the end of year to have a meeting, this usually takes place in either New York, Paris or London.
Henri Cartier - Bresson, Robert Capa, George Rodger and David Seymour created the Magnum photo agency in 1947.
For nearly 70 years the Magnum photos agency have been providing the highest quality photographs to a wide range of companies i.e. charities, publishers, brands and cultural institutions.
Magnum has documented practically all the worlds most massive events since the 1930s, the type of things they documented can range from disasters, conflicts, politics and places of interests.
Magnum has a massive global audience and it still sticks to its true interests since it was created.
Few Magnum Photographers
Matt Black
Matt Black's Work has explored the connections between migration, poverty, agriculture and the environment in his native rural California and in southern Mexico.
He has photographed over hundred communities across 44 U.S. states for his project which is 'The Geography of Poverty' Other work include 'The Dry Land - about the drought on Californias agricultural communities' and 'The Monster in the Mountains - about the disappearance of 43 students in the southern Mexicans state of Guerrero.
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Alessandra Sanguinetti is a recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a Hasselblad Foundation grant, her photographs are included in public and private collections such as the Museum of Modern Art (Based in New York), The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and Museum of Fine arts in Boston.
Alessandra Has photographed for the New York Times Magazine, Life, Newsweek.
Patrick Zachmann
Patrick has been a freelance photographer since 1976 and a member of the magnum photos since 1990, in 1982 his work on the Naples Police and the The Magic led to a collection of cinematographic photographs that became his first book 'Madonna' which was delivered in 1983 - Over the course of years he's has explored jewish identities in France - His features of events in Tiananmen Square in Beijing pursued him to work on the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and he's been working on a project covering illegal immigration in Europe recently.
