by Cy Barlow | Jan 6, 2025
Throughout his career, Robert Heinecken (1931–2006) amused, educated, and often shocked viewers with his pointed, irreverent photographic works. So provocative were Heinecken’s subjects—the Vietnam War, pornography, sexual politics, the media marketplace—that many...
by Cy Barlow | Jan 6, 2025
Frederick Sommer was an intellectual and artist before he went on to become one of the great photographers of the modern era. Born in Angri, Italy, he grew up in Brazil, where his father designed gardens. In the 1920s, Sommer studied landscape architecture at Cornell...
by Cy Barlow | Jan 6, 2025
Louis Carlos Bernal (1941–1993) was born in Douglas, Arizona, and grew up in Phoenix. After completing his M.F.A. at Arizona State University in 1972, he joined the faculty of Pima Community College in Tucson, where he remained for the duration of his career,...
by Cy Barlow | Jan 6, 2025
Born Dolores Martínez in Jalisco, Mexico, Lola Álvarez Bravo (1907–1993) was one of Mexico’s most important photographers. Like other women artists linked with famous male counterparts, her work has often been overshadowed by that of her husband, renowned photographer...
by Cy Barlow | Jan 6, 2025
Aaron Siskind has been called an abstract photographer and, indeed, many of his photographs feature subjects that are not easily identifiable. His photography, however, is not purely abstract. Rather, Siskind photographed recognizable places and things in ways that...
