Greatest Photographers of the 20th Century

GreatestPhotographers Of TheTwentieth Century

How do you define GreatPhotographers

SKILLFUL.

SKILLFUL. INFLUENTIAL.

SKILLFUL. INFLUENTIAL. REMARKABLE.

Eugène AtgetFebruary 12, 1857 – August 4, 1927French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris.

He was more interested in the dark and sooty corners of the old city.

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Where DidThe People Go?

Atgetprefers to workearly in themorning

Giving many of theimages a feeling of silence and timelessness.

He producedno single famous Photograph ArtDealers.com

Made thousands of images thatrecreate the visual past of a great city.

My work was physically demanding as my oldbellows camera, with its glass plates, and awooden tripod, weighed more than fortypounds!

I offered to lend him a little Rolleiflex, but he refused.

Man Ray August 27, 1890– November 18, 1976An American artist who spentmost of his career in Paris, France.

Dada and Surrealist movements’Significant contributor

Dada Anti-war. Anti-bourgeois.Anarchist in nature

SurrealismSurprise.Unexpected juxtapositions.Non sequitur.

In 1999, ARTnews magazinenamed him one of the 25 most influential artists of the 20th century.

Photographs

Photogram

He never fully abandoned painting though portrait photography provided him with both financial support and celebrity status

When asked by people ifhe quitted one art foranother… during his time

“There was no conflict between the two –why couldn’t people accept the idea thatone might engage in two activities in hislifetime, alternately or simultaneously?”

So you have to thank this man for making PHOTOGRAPHY an accepted ART FORM.

Alfred Stieglitz January 1, 1864 - July 13, 1946American photographer & modern art promoter

He was… Experimental

Experimental Technical

Experimental Technical A Photography Crusader

“Stieglitz does not, like his Parisian contemporary, Atget,range the city from morning to night, deliberatelycomposing a documentary history of its life, after the fashionof Zola. He not merely observes: he waits, he eliminates; heselects.” - Lewis Mumford, critic

Georgia OKeeffe, wife

8 of 9 highest prices everpaid at auction for Stieglitzphotographs are images of Georgia OKeeffe ArtDealers.com

Like the Chinese proverb, ONE PICTURE IS WORTH TENTHOUSAND WORDS

Walker Evans November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975American photographerBest known for his work for theFarm Security Administrationdocumenting the effects of theGreat Depression.

His goal as a photographer wasto make pictures that are: literate authoritative transcendent

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Walker Evans was a writer in Time and Editor in Fortune magazine.

In 2000, Evans was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame ---

Cindy Sherman January 19, 1954 - PresentAmerican photographer and film director well-known for her conceptual portraits

As a child, she loved to play dress-up, using old clothes she had inherited from her grandmother.She also loved to draw, and she practiced by studying her own face.

Year after she graduated fromcollege, she began to make theseries of 69 photographs,(Untitled Film Stillsrecognized as -- “one of the landmarks of late- twentieth-century art.”

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And much more…

Sherman’s contribution is conceptual “She has reclaimed the oldest trick in the book, storytelling, and given it new life in visual art.” - Calvin Tomkins ArtDealers.com

Stieglitz, Evans, and Atget were experimental artists who were committed to realism

Man Ray and Sherman were conceptual innovators who constructed images to express their ideas

I might say that I possess all of Old Paris.- Eugène Atget, 1920I want to be contradictory and irrational.- Man Ray, 1966Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.- Alfred Stieglitz, 1921It is reality that photography reaches toward.- Walker Evans, 1969[T]he one thing I’ve always known is that the camera lies.- Cindy Sherman, 1987

The Greatest Photographers of the Past Century ArtDealers.com

On determining the greatest… This was based on the study by David Galenson (2009). NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH ArtDealers.com

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