Athena's photography Blog

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Jeffrey Wall is a Canadian artist best known for his large scale photographs and art history writing. He has been a key figure in Vancouver's art scene since the 1970s.

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Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer as well as an architect. His work explores the ideas of memory and time. He uses long exposures in almost all of his photographs.

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Berenice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her portraits of  cultural figures and her photographs of New York City architecture of the 1930s

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Peter Lik is a photographer from Australia, he is famous for his nature and panoramic landscape images. 

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Gregory Crewdson is a photographer known for his tension he creates between domesticity, nature, and the unknown. His subjects for his images act as if they are mysterious and involved in a sort of supernatural contact. He uses Steven Spielberg as influence for his images.

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Michael Kenna is an English photographer best known for his unusual black and white landscapes that are achieved by photographing at night with exposures of up to 10 hours. 

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Gerta Pohorylle,  was know around the world as Gerda Taro. She was a German Jewish war photographer during the Spanish Civil War. She is the first woman photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war. 

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Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer and photojournalist. He is known for his images that express the life of everyday people.

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Arthur Fellig, known as Weegee, was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white photography throughout the streets of New York City.

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Helmut Newton was a German-Australian photographer famous for his prolific, provocative, and erotic Black and white photography that can be seen throughout Vogue magazine. 

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Vivian Dorothy Maier was an American street photographer but was not discovered until after her death. During her life she worked as a nanny for over 40 years and while persuing photography on the side.

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Brassaï was a well known Hungarian–French photographer, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker who became famous in the 20th century.

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 David Bailey is a British photographer famous for his advertising, celebrity, and fashion photographs.

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David LaChapelle is an American photographer, he most well know for his unique portraits of famous people, which often references art history and sometimes tries to portray social messages.

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Yousu Karsh

Armenian-Canadian photographer famous for his portraits of important and popular men and women of politics, Hollywood, and the arts.

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Annie Leibovitz 

she is a famous portrait photographer who works for the magazine Vanity Fair. Annie continues to produce images that are seen as iconic and provocative.

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Robert Capa

He was famous for being a war journalist in the Spanish Civil War. He was killed by a land mine while on assignment during the French Indochina War. His accidental and untimely death left him know in the world as a fearless photojournalist.