August 29, 1986 New York Sean Penn at the Columbus Café after a performance of Goose & Tom Tom Intriguing insight into a time when celebrities were celebrities… Whilst studying photojournalism in LA, a young Ron Galella took photographs of celebrities arriving at film premieres – selling them to the National Enquirer and Fotoplay. Seems it became a bit of an obsession, Galella went on … Continue reading Ron Galella; Paparazzo Extraordinaire!

Black Sheep and White Crow by Jan Saudek Jan Saudek (born 13 May 1935 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech art photographer and painter. His best-known work is noted for its hand-tinted portrayal of painterly dream worlds, often inhabited by nude or semi-nude figures surrounded by bare plaster walls or painted backdrops. In this they echo the studio and tableaux works of mid nineteenth century erotic … Continue reading Jan Saudek

Agnes Nabuurs by Erwin Olaf Alena Vezza by Yuriy Balan Aline Weber By Matthew Brookes Anna Millonig by Toby Hudson Caroline Wozniacki Chloe Sevigny by Craig McDean Dasha Zharova Edita Vilkeviciute By Lachlan Bailey Irving Penn Jessica Stam By Willy Vanderperre Josh Olins Juliana Schurig by Ellen von Unwerth Julianne Moore by Warwick Saint Karen Elson By Mert & Marcus Karlie Kloss by Greg Kadel … Continue reading More Visual Optimism

Nobuyoshi Araki has long courted controversy in his native Japan. The photographer who shot to fame after intimately documenting his wife during the couple’s honeymoon, is, by his own admission, obsessed with the opposite sex, and has become known for his graphic depictionsof young women in sexualized situations. He’s also a master stylist with a preternatural sense for color, a strength that gives supporters leverage … Continue reading Japan’s Most Notorious Photographer Defends His Love For Women

Rural Lithuanian Discos Remind Andrew Miksys of Ancient Pagan Rituals Which could be why Lithuanian city kids aren’t that into his photos. Photographer Andrew Miksys was born and raised in Seatlle, but his family is Lithuanian. The first time he visited his homeland was to meet some distant relatives, back in the 1990s. On his second visit he stumbled upon a small disco in the … Continue reading Andrew Miksys | Lithuanian Discos

Ferdinando Scianna took up photography while studying literature, philosophy and art history at the University of Palermo in the 1960s. He moved to Milan in 1966 and started working as a photographer for L’Europeo in 1967, becoming a journalist there in 1973. Scianna wrote on politics for Le Monde diplomatique and on literature and photography for La Quinzaine Littéraire. He first joined Magnum Photos in 1982, … Continue reading Ferdinando Scianna Photography

Peter Lindbergh is photographer and video director credited with ushering in a new era of supermodel photography. Lindbergh was born on November 23, 1944, to German parents stationed in Leszno, Poland (then annexed by Nazi Germany). After the war, his family relocated to Duisberg, a coastal industrial town that would later influence the backdrops of his photography. Inspired by Joseph Kosuth, Lindbergh first studied abstract … Continue reading Peter Lindbergh Photography

Madeline Masarik Andok Tamas David Bailey Heinrich Riebesehl Helmut Newton Julia Baier Kurt Gledhill Lee Friedlander Marc Apers Martin Munk Mary by Paul Jasmin Nicholas Alan Cope Olivier Kervern Peter Hujar Rene Burri Thomas Chable Henry Wessel Tadeu Vilani German Peraire Anthony Friedkin Gusmano Cesaretti Continue reading More Black and White Jewels

American photographer Jason Langer (born 1967) is best known for his psychological and noirish visions of contemporary urban life. Secret City, his first monograph published by Nazraeli Press, depicts night and dusk scenes of various cities with “carefully crafted compositions reminiscent of the symbolist photographers, and swathes of meticulously printed deep black tones characteristic of the gelatin silver process…as much Hopper and Raymond Chandler as … Continue reading Jason Langer Photography

Photographer, filmmaker, and video artist Anton Corbijn earned the artistic recognition he always craved by capturing, in portraits, the psychological complexities of Gerhard Richter, Alexander McQueen, Kate Moss, and myriad other influential artists, musicians, models, and designers. “He sees pleasure through guilty eyes and he sees good and evil in very dramatic ways,” U2’s Bono says of Corbijn. Known for their intimacy, soft contours, and … Continue reading Anton Corbijn