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Art Subject: Face
Lekutano - Photograph by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
By John Kenny 1
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of Lekutano, a Samburu man from northern Kenya in 2019.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Lemarleni - Photograph by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
By John Kenny 1
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of Lemarleni, a Samburu man from northern Kenya in 2019.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken wit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Lemarleni - Photograph by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
By John Kenny 1
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of Lemarleni, a Samburu man from northern Kenya in 2019.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken wit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Madina - Photograph by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
By John Kenny 1
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of Madina, a Gabbra woman from northern Kenya in 2019.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Loha by John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print.
Located in Coltishall, GB
This portrait of Loha, a ‘Naga’ sadhu, was taken in Pashupatinath, one of Hinduism’s holiest sites. Lord Pashupatinath is a manifestation of Lord Shiva and the name translates to ‘protector of the animals’. Naga sadhus cover themselves in ash and typically wander naked from head to toe.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkable level of detail. His subjects calm demeanor belies the reality of harsh arid winds, extreme temperatures and dust.
John Kenny’s black and white photographic portraits are taken on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa and India. All shot with natural light and with the subjects in their day to day attire they reveal the pride and strength inherent in tradional ways of life.
The C-type prints are mounted with an acrylic face mount...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Loha by John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print.
Located in Coltishall, GB
This portrait of Loha, a ‘Naga’ sadhu, was taken in Pashupatinath, one of Hinduism’s holiest sites. Lord Pashupatinath is a manifestation of Lord Shiva and the name translates to ‘protector of the animals’. Naga sadhus cover themselves in ash and typically wander naked from head to toe.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkable level of detail. His subjects calm demeanor belies the reality of harsh arid winds, extreme temperatures and dust.
John Kenny’s black and white photographic portraits are taken on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa and India. All shot with natural light and with the subjects in their day to day attire they reveal the pride and strength inherent in tradional ways of life.
The C-type prints are mounted with an acrylic face mount...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Parvati by John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print.
Located in Coltishall, GB
A beautiful Meghwal girl from the edges of the white desert, the Rann of Kutch, an arid area bordering Pakistan in the far West of India.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkable level of detail. His subjects calm demeanor belies the reality of harsh arid winds, extreme temperatures and dust.
John Kenny’s black and white photographic portraits are taken on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa and India. All shot with natural light and with the subjects in their day to day attire they reveal the pride and strength inherent in tradional ways of life.
The C-type prints are mounted with an acrylic face mount...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Loha by John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print.
Located in Coltishall, GB
This portrait of Loha, a ‘Naga’ sadhu, was taken in Pashupatinath, one of Hinduism’s holiest sites. Lord Pashupatinath is a manifestation of Lord Shiva and the name translates to ‘protector of the animals’. Naga sadhus cover themselves in ash and typically wander naked from head to toe.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkable level of detail. His subjects calm demeanor belies the reality of harsh arid winds, extreme temperatures and dust.
John Kenny’s black and white photographic portraits are taken on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa and India. All shot with natural light and with the subjects in their day to day attire they reveal the pride and strength inherent in tradional ways of life.
The C-type prints are mounted with an acrylic face mount...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Parvati by John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print.
Located in Coltishall, GB
A beautiful Meghwal girl from the edges of the white desert, the Rann of Kutch, an arid area bordering Pakistan in the far West of India.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkable level of detail. His subjects calm demeanor belies the reality of harsh arid winds, extreme temperatures and dust.
John Kenny’s black and white photographic portraits are taken on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa and India. All shot with natural light and with the subjects in their day to day attire they reveal the pride and strength inherent in tradional ways of life.
The C-type prints are mounted with an acrylic face mount...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Kashi by John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print.
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this Sadhu with such kind eyes in Kashi (another name for Varanasi) on one of the chaotic ghats. We tried and failed to take the portrait as crowds and sacred cows constantly...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Kashi by John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this Sadhu with such kind eyes in Kashi (another name for Varanasi) on one of the chaotic ghats. We tried and failed to take the portrait as crowds and sacred cows constantly streamed between us. Fortunately a group of young boat-hands gave up their relatively sheltered corner of the ghat, where they had been gambling over cards, to give us five minutes of calm space.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkable level of detail. His subjects calm demeanor belies the reality of harsh arid winds, extreme temperatures and dust.
John Kenny’s black and white photographic portraits are taken on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa and India. All shot with natural light and with the subjects in their day to day attire they reveal the pride and strength inherent in tradional ways of life.
The C-type prints are mounted with an acrylic face mount...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Ramji Bhagu by John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this Sadhu with such kind eyes in Kashi (another name for Varanasi) on one of the chaotic ghats. We tried and failed to take the portrait as crowds and sacred cows constantly...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Ramji Bhagu by John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this Sadhu with such kind eyes in Kashi (another name for Varanasi) on one of the chaotic ghats. We tried and failed to take the portrait as crowds and sacred cows constantly...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Glimpses by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount.
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young woman of the Afar culture
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and in their day to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
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Displaced by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount.
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young man of the Nuer culture with distinctive scarification on his forehead. The photograph was taken in Ethiopia but like many of the Nuer he had been displaced from his home in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Displaced by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount.
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young man of the Nuer culture with distinctive scarification on his forehead. The photograph was taken in Ethiopia but like many of the Nuer he had been displaced from his home in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Farthest East by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount.
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Fulani girl in Ethiopia. The Fulani have a nomadic lifestyle that sees them moving across the Sahel from Mali in the West to Ethiopia in the East.
John Kenny’s work is all...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Farthest East by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Fulani girl in Ethiopia. The Fulani have a nomadic lifestyle that sees them moving across the Sahel from Mali in the West to Ethiopia in the East.
John Kenny’s work is all...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Steve Mass, the owner of the Mudd Club
Located in New York, NY
Steve Mass, the owner of the Mudd Club
Archival pigment print
image size: 36 x 36 inches
Signed and numbered
edition of 15
William Coupon is an...
Category
1970s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Afar Woman of Assaita By John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount.
Located in Coltishall, GB
Afar Woman of Assaita by John Kenny. Portrait of an African woman. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount.
The town of Assaita is in the fiercely hot lowlands of the Rift Valley at t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Assile by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Assile was photographed at a weekly market in Key Afar in the Omo valley. Key Afar is on a hillside near the mountains, and attracts hundreds of Hamer, Banna and Tsemai in an immensely colourful gathering of people.
The market is divided between livestock with men trading goats and cattle and a separate section with women selling grain, nuts, containers, head stools...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Afar Woman of Assaita by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The town of Assaita is in the fiercely hot lowlands of the Rift Valley at the very north eastern edges of Ethiopia, near to Djibouti. Unlike Ethiopia’s highlands, which are renowned for their long history of orthodox Christianity...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Horns of Africa. By John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount.
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Mursi are one of many groups that practice scarification in the Omo valley and are perhaps the most adept at producing intricate and beautiful patterns. The ritual of scarring, w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Horns of Africa. By John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount.
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Mursi are one of many groups that practice scarification in the Omo valley and are perhaps the most adept at producing intricate and beautiful patterns. The ritual of scarring, w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Bargi. By John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount.
Located in Coltishall, GB
Bargi, a young Hamer girl, takes a large amount of pride in her appearance. Her clothing, jewellery and hair are carefully arranged and require a lot of attention. Her key respons...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Young Hamer Woman. By John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Markets are the lifeblood of social interaction in the Omo valley as they bring together widely scattered groups for a few hours each week. For the remainder of their time, many fam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Bargi. By John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount.
Located in Coltishall, GB
Bargi, a young Hamer girl, takes a large amount of pride in her appearance. Her clothing, jewellery and hair are carefully arranged and require a lot of attention. Her key respons...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Bargi. By John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Bargi, a young Hamer girl, takes a large amount of pride in her appearance. Her clothing, jewellery and hair are carefully arranged and require a lot of attention. Her key respons...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Mursi adornment. By John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young girl from one of the few Mursi villages in Mago National Park, in the lower Omo valley. The Mursi are often engaged in flood retreat cultivation around two main rivers: the O...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Mursi adornment. By John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young girl from one of the few Mursi villages in Mago National Park, in the lower Omo valley. The Mursi are often engaged in flood retreat cultivation around two main rivers: the O...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Nyangatom boy by John Kenny . C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
It was boiling hot as I walked the 3 kilometres to the Nyangatom village of Kangatan. A shimmering heat haze and occasional dust devils whipped fine powder across the flat, bare l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Nyangatom boy by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
It was boiling hot as I walked the 3 kilometres to the Nyangatom village of Kangatan. A shimmering heat haze and occasional dust devils whipped fine powder across the flat, bare l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Nyangatom boy by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
It was boiling hot as I walked the 3 kilometres to the Nyangatom village of Kangatan. A shimmering heat haze and occasional dust devils whipped fine powder across the flat, bare l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Mursi Traditions by John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print
Located in Coltishall, GB
Mago National Park in southern Ethiopia is home to the Mursi, one of the most well known tribes of the Omo valley. The area is inhospitable to outsiders, because of the heat, humidi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Beads of the Omo Valley by John Kenny. C-Type print with Acrylic face mount.
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Arbore of southern Ethiopia are a small group living within a few square miles of the Omo Valley. They are located near to Lake Stefanie, known locally as Chew Bahir, a body of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Nuer reflections. By John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print
Located in Coltishall, GB
This Nuer man from the far west of Ethiopia was displaced from South Sudan. He has the characteristic six forehead line scars of his group and the most beautiful pattern of dots and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Nuer reflections by John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print
Located in Coltishall, GB
This Nuer man from the far west of Ethiopia was displaced from South Sudan. He has the characteristic six forehead line scars of his group and the most beautiful pattern of dots and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Jack Nicholson + Jack Kerouac, Contemporary Art, Photography, 21st Century
By Gisela Faure
Located in Mexico City, MX
Jack Nicholson + Jack Kerouac
Photography digital collage
Edition of 7
Framed in black wood
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
La Dama de la Plaza by James Sparshatt - Palladium Platinum Print - Float Frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
A lady of pure joy… dancing in the Plaza de la Revolucion on May 1st 2001.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 19...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Marietine Birnie, Malta, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s aerial landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta.
This is ...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Lady in Red, Fashion Photograph by Willie Miller
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Willie Miller, American (1940 - )
Title: Lady in Red
Year: 1995
Medium: Color Photograph, signed verso
Size: 18 in. x 12 in. (45.72 cm x 30.48 cm)
Willie Miller has been a S...
Category
1990s Post-Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color
Dansho by John Kenny. C Print with Acrylic Mount, 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
Turmi in southern Ethiopia is one of the largest Hamer settlements. Turmi’s size is due to its dirt road to the outside world, and its location near to water: an ephemeral river floo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
La Celebracíon by James Sparshatt. Silver Gelatin Print with Wood Frame, 2004
Located in Coltishall, GB
A moment of pure joy in Holguín, Cuba, during las Romerias de Mayo festival.
James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Wood
Slim Aarons: Tiger Morse (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Tiger Morse sits in her shop, 'A la Carte' in New York, 1964.
Andy Warhol star and fashion designer Joan "Tiger" Morse is pictured here with her signature black lace and a feathered mask, with a cigarette and long holder. She was a regular at Max's Kansas City, a society girl turned radical designer and creative dropout.
She frequently lied about her past, and her biography remains a bit mysterious. She has been called “La Passionaria of the dropout subculture.” She would say, “I work all day and I swing all night." Her celebrity clients ran the gamut from Jackie Kennedy to Frank Zappa.
She was known for only using manmade materials, including vinyl, Mylar, sequins, and electric lights. Her pop designs include the Love / Hate dress, which said "Love" on the front and "Hate" on the back.
Tiger was in two Andy Warhol factory films, Tiger Morse, 1967 and **** (Four Stars). She was the subject of Tiger Morse, while **** also featured Tiger, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, and Ultra Violet. Her designs can be seen on the cover of the "We're Only In It For The Money" album, which parodies The Beatles Sargent...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Kakuwsa - Photograph by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
By John Kenny 1
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of Kakuwsa, a Rendille man from northern Kenya in 2019.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Lekutano - Photograph by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
By John Kenny 1
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of Lekutano, a Samburu man from northern Kenya in 2019.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Madina - Photograph by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
By John Kenny 1
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of Madina, a Gabbra woman from northern Kenya in 2019.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Mara Lane at the Sands
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x ...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Shania Twain - artist proof print
Located in Austin, TX
Shania Twain, Lake Placid, NY 1997 by photographer Timothy White
Signed artist proof print
16x20" image on 17x22" paper
Category
Late 20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
Colors, 1990, Fashion Photograph by Willie Miller
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Willie Miller, American (1940 - )
Title: Colors
Year: 1990
Medium: Color Photograph
Size: 18 in. x 12 in. (45.72 cm x 30.48 cm)
Willie Miller has been a South Beach based f...
Category
1990s Post-Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color
Portrait of Ancho by John Kenny. C-type print with acrylic face-mount, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
Ancho is a Hamer woman from the Omo Valley in Southern Ethiopia. John met her on his first journey to the region in 2006. Her portrait was featured on the front cover of a number o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Mary McFadden'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A couple at a swimming pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state line between Nevada and California.
Estate stamped and hand numbere...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Milton Greene, "Bowler Hat II" from the Black Sitting, original vintage photo
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original vintage photograph by Milton Greene in 1956. This photograph depicts Hollywood Icon Marilyn Monroe, who was a close friend and business partner of the artist. This piece is a part of Greene's series entitled "The Black Sitting...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Natalia Ginzburg - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Natalia Ginzburg is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Narcissus 2, " C-Print Face Mounted with Acrylic - Portrait Photography, Russian
By Oleg Dou
Located in Houston, TX
This Oleg Dou work is a 63 x 47 inch digitally rendered C-print which has been face mounted on acrylic. It was printed in 2015, and is one of eight editions. Dou’s use of metaphor an...
Category
2010s New Media Portrait Photography
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, C Print
David Byrne (Talking Heads)
Located in New York, NY
David Byrne (Talking Heads)
Archival pigment print
image size: 24 x 24 inches
Signed and numbered
edition of 25
William Coupon is an American ph...
Category
1970s American Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Robert Frank
Located in Surfside, FL
Robert Frank in Central Park. Shoot A film during Anti-War protests. April !5 1967
Robert Frank (born November 9, 1924) is an important figure in American photography and film. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, was influential, and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society. Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and photomontage.
Frank was born in Switzerland. His father, Hermann originating from Frankfurt, Germany had become stateless after losing his German citizenship as a Jew. They had to apply for the Swiss citizenship of Frank and his older brother, Manfred. In 1946. Frank emigrated to the United States in 1947, and secured a job in New York City as a fashion photographer for Harper's Bazaar. After meeting Edward Steichen, participated in the group show 51 American Photographers at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
He worked as a freelance photojournalist for magazines including McCall's, Vogue, and Fortune. Associating with other contemporary photographers such as Saul Leiter and Diane Arbus, he helped form what Jane Livingston has termed The New York School of photographers during the 1940s and 1950s.
With the aid of his major artistic influence, the photographer Walker Evans, Frank secured a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1955 to travel across the United States and photograph all strata of its society. Cities he visited included Detroit, Michigan; Savannah, Georgia; Miami Beach and St. Petersburg, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Houston, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Reno, Nevada; Salt Lake City, Utah; Butte, Montana; and Chicago, Illinois.
Shortly after returning to New York in 1957, Frank met Beat writer Jack Kerouac on the sidewalk outside a party and showed him the photographs from his travels. Kerouac immediately told Frank "Sure I can write something about these pictures," and he contributed the introduction to the U.S. edition of The Americans. Frank also became lifelong friends with Allen Ginsberg, and was one of the main visual artists to document the Beat subculture Les Américains was first published in 1958 by Robert Delpire in Paris, and finally in 1959 in the United States by Grove Press, where it initially received substantial criticism. The Americans became a seminal work in American photography and art history, and is the work with which Frank is most clearly identified. In 1961, Frank received his first individual show, entitled Robert Frank: Photographer, at the Art Institute of Chicago. He also showed at MoMA in New York in 1962.
A celebratory exhibit of The Americans was displayed in 2009 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
By the time The Americans was published in the United States, Frank had moved away from photography to concentrate on filmmaking. Among his films was the 1959 Pull My Daisy, which was written and narrated by Kerouac and starred Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and others from the Beat circle. The Beats emphasized spontaneity, and the film conveyed the quality of having been thrown together or even improvised.
In 1960, Frank was staying in Pop artist George Segal's basement while filming Sin of Jesus with a grant from Walter K...
Category
1960s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lana Portrait Color Colour Photography Female Figure In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Lana Portrait Color Colour Photography Female Figure In Stock
Billy und Hells are two photographers: Anke Linz (Nürnberg, 1965) and Andreas Oettinger (Munich, 1963). They met in 1986...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Star Wars, Luke Skywalker, Sience Fiction Filmstill, 1977
Located in Cologne, DE
The original Star Wars trilogy, formerly marketed as the Star Wars Trilogy (and colloquially referred to as the 'original trilogy'), is the first set of three films produced in the S...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Marc Bolan, 1972
Located in London, GB
© Michael Putland
Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan of T-Rex at Le Chateux recording studio France 1972
Marc Bolan was an influential British singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known as ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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She was one of the most photographed women in history, but the world’s longest-reigning queen remained something of a mystery throughout her decades on the throne.
Photographer to Know: William Klein
The noted lensman brought a bold sense of irony to fashion photography in the 1950s and '60s, transforming the industry. But his work in street photography, documentary filmmaking and abstract art is just as striking.
Chris Levine’s Portrait of a Shut-Eyed Queen Elizabeth Sparkles with Crystals
Celebrate the queen's Platinum Jubilee with a glittering, Pop-art version of the most famous and thought-provoking photo of Her Royal Majesty.
In Milan, La DoubleJ Celebrates Women of Design through Portraiture
During Salone del Mobile, Robyn Lea photographed some of the most powerful creative forces in the European design industry, decked out in J.J. Martin’s maximal fashion line.
Lori Grinker’s Artful Photographs of a Young Mike Tyson Are a Knockout!
The New York photographer tells us how an encounter with the then-13-year-old boxer led to a decade-long project that saw them both go pro.
John Dolan’s Photographs Capture the Art and Soul of a Wedding Day
In a new book compiling 30 years' worth of images, the photographer reveals that it's the in-between moments that make a wedding special.