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image captionA shadow of a victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb seen on stone steps




image captionMIGRANT MOTHER  DOROTHEA LANGE 1936

FALLING MAN  RICHARD DREW 2001

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image captionLUNCH TIME


EIHOH HOSOE
image captionEMBRACE 1970



EIKOH HOSOE  >>>

Eikoh Hosoe is a Japanese photographer and filmmaker who emerged in the experimental arts movement of post-World War II Japan. He is known for his psychologically charged images, often exploring subjects such as death, erotic obsession, and irrationality. Wikipedia
Born: March 18, 1933 (age 87 years), Yonezawa, Kitahiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Art forms: Photography
Movies: Navel and A-Bomb
Education: Tokyo College of Photography, Tokyo Polytechnic University Nakano Campus

SHOMEI TOMATSU >>>
Shōmei Tōmatsu was a Japanese photographer. Born in Nagoya in 1930, Tōmatsu studied economics at Aichi University, graduating in 1954. While still a student, he had his photographs published by the major Japanese photography magazines. He entered Iwanami and worked on the series Iwanami Shashin Bunko. Wikipedia
Born: January 16, 1930, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Died: December 14, 2012, Naha, Okinawa, Japan
Artworks: Hibakusha Senji Yamaguchi, Nagasaki, MORE
On view: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Education: Aichi University

                      

PAUL STRAND  >>>
Paul Strand was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. In the 1930s, he helped found the Photo League. Wikipedia
Born: October 16, 1890, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Died: March 31, 1976, Orgeval, France
On view: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, J. Paul Getty Museum
Period: American modernism
Education: Ethical Culture Fieldston School (1909)
Movies: Manhatta, Native Land, Redes, The Plow That Broke the Plains, The Live Wire




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EDWARD CURTIS >>>
Edward Sheriff Curtis was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American people. Wikipedia
Born: February 19, 1868, Whitewater, WI
Died: October 19, 1952, Los Angeles, CA
Artworks: Canyon de Chelly, The Three Chiefs - Piegan, MORE
On view: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MORE
Movies: In the Land of the Head Hunters, The Ten Commandments


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ELLIOT ERWITT  >>>
Elliott Erwitt is an American advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid photos of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings. He has been a Member of Magnum Photos since 1954. Wikipedia
Born: July 26, 1928 (age 92 years), Paris, France
Movies: Beauty Knows No Pain, Arthur Penn - The Director, Everybody Street
Education: Los Angeles City College, New School For Social Research, Hollywood High School




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