Sentences with phrase «first war photographer»
The first war photographer was a Victorian gentleman who took his camera to the Crimea to document a wretched power struggle in which soldiers were freely sacrificed.
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«He was probably one of the first photographers to travel extensively in Africa after World War II.»
Photographer David Levinthal and Curator in Charge Lisa Hostetler will be in conversation and guide guests through the exhibition War, Myth, Desire, the first museum retrospective of Levinthal's work in more than twenty years.
His groundbreaking project Hitler Moves East (1975 — 77), a series of imagined scenes from World War II's Russian front, first established his reputation, becoming a touchstone for the iconoclastic generation of American photographers that includes artists like Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince.
These photographers took arresting war images and were the first to document the liberation of Nazi sites.
Ashkan Baghestani, head of Arab and Iranian sales at Sothebys Middle East department says of this most recent show: «I first discovered one of their artists in 2014 — Richard Mosse, an Irish war photographer whose fascinating show had been set up inside an old Soho underground parking lot.
These include Czech Modernism: 1900 — 1945 (1989), the first major museum exhibition in the United States to chart the explosion of creativity in pre - and postwar Eastern Europe; The History of Japanese Photography (2003), which illuminated the rich legacy of photographic practice in Japan; and the currently touring WAR / PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath (2012), an unprecedented exploration of war through the eyes of photographers.
05 Oct 2015 IMMA presents new work by award winning British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews IMMA presents Shot at Dawn a new body of work by the British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews that focuses on the sites at which soldiers from the British, French and Belgian armies were executed for cowardice and desertion during the First World War.
The creative possibilities explored through photography were never richer or more varied than in the years between the First and Second World Wars, when photographers approached figuration, abstraction, and architecture with unmatched imaginative fervor.
Albert Renger - Patzsch (1897 — 1966) is considered one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century as a representative of German New Objectivity, a movement that emerged after the end of the First World War.
An illustrated catalogue of the same title accompanies Chaotic Harmony, co-published by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and distributed by Yale University Press, The catalogue presents one of the first overviews of the artists, subjects, and themes in contemporary Korean photography, with scholarly essays by Tucker and Sinsheimer; a chronology of post-World War II developments by noted photographer and curator Bohnchang Koo; an exhibition checklist; and brief biographies of the artists, compiled by MFAH photography curatorial assistant Natalie Zelt.