Born out of the Second World War, Magnum's vibrant and independent platform is as essential as ever, allowing both the social role and transcendent
artistic quality of images to flourish.
Not exact matches
A work like the 2000 photograph I Don't Want to Get Over You perhaps best captures much
of his
artistic output: Tillmans manipulated a brilliantly lit snapshot
of clouds over the sea, with the sun barely breaking through, and the resulting picture is streaked with verdant green ribbons
of abstract color, adding a painterly
qualities to a technical
image.
Examples include Julia Margaret Cameron's soft - focused and reverential Herbert Wilson (1868), which helped to move photographic portraiture from pure documentation to
artistic intention; and Edward Curtis's field - printed cyanotype
of an American Indian (c.1900 - 1930), which also shows how early photographers checked the
quality of their
images before digital photography.