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Christophe Agou
Christophe Agou (1969 – September 2015) was a French documentary photographer and street photographer who lived in New York City. His work has been published in books and is held in public collections. He was a member of the In-Public street photography collective. Biography Agou was born in Montbrison, France in 1969. A self-taught photographer, Agou grew up in a small town in the Forez region, on the eastern side of the Massif Central.Exhibition notice , Clermont-Ferrand city website. From the early 1990s, Agou made documentary-style photographs in both black and white and color which take an allusive approach to the human condition. He also made short films and sculpture. In 1992, he moved to |
In-Public
In-Public (sometimes written iN-PUBLiC) is an international group of street photographers that operates as a collective. It was established in 2000 by Nick Turpin with the intention of bringing together like minded photographers to hold exhibitions, produce books and conduct workshops and promote street photography. It was the first international collective of street photographers, its geographically disparate membership facilitated by the Internet. New members were accepted but the recruitment process was "haphazard and organic". It ended in 2018"in-public was the first Street Photography collective, it was founded in 2000 and ran for 18 years until October 2018. / A disagreement between the members made it impossible for the group to continue in its present form." Pop-up over the top page of in-public.com; accessed 12 May 2019. but was relaunched in 2020. History In-Public was established in 2000 by Nick Turpin. Turpin left the collective in 2018. Its website stated that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary Photography
Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle events or environments both significant and relevant to history and historical events as well as everyday life. It is typically undertaken as professional photojournalism, or real life reportage, but it may also be an amateur, artistic, or academic pursuit. Social documentary photography aims to draw the public's attention to social issues or to the life of underprivileged people. History The term ''document'' applied to photography antedates the mode or genre itself. Photographs meant to accurately describe otherwise unknown, hidden, forbidden, or difficult-to-access places or circumstances date to the earliest daguerreotype and calotype "surveys" of the ruins of the Near East, Egypt, and the American wilderness areas. Nineteenth-century archaeologist John Beasly Greene, for example, traveled to Nubia in the early 1850s to photograph the major ruins of the region. One early documentati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Glancey
Jonathan Glancey, is an architectural critic and writer who was the architecture and design editor at ''The Guardian'', a position he held from 1997 to February 2012. He previously held the same post at ''The Independent''. He also has been involved with the architecture magazines ''Building Design'', '' Architectural Review'', The Architect and ''Blueprint''. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA. Following in the footsteps of Ian Nairn he made a series of four films, ''Outrage Revisited'' (2010) on the banality of Britain's postwar buildings. He is a fan of Le Corbusier. Currently he reports on architecture and design for the website BBC Culture, and he has written articles about Andrea Palladio who was a Renaissance man into architecture and established what is known to be 'Palladianism'. Education Glancey attended St Benedict's School in Ealing, London and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford. Boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Formhals
Bryan Formhals (born October 18, 1976) is an American photographer and editor, based in New York City. He co-edited the book ''Photographers' Sketchbooks'' (2014). Life and work Formhals was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota. He earned a degree in communication and journalism at nearby Saint John's University, Collegeville in 1999. He moved to Minneapolis and got a job working for a web company, transferring west to Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California in 2004. In LA he took a class at The Second City doing improvisational comedy and wrote a screenplay. In 2005, unhappy with his screenplay and experiencing writer's block, he began taking photographs while walking around Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles. This resulted in the series ''Genesee Ave.'' In 2009 he moved east to New York City, first to Greenpoint, Brooklyn and then in 2012 to Astoria, Queens. In 2010 ''Wired'' highlighted Formhals as one of its "Favorite Photobloggers" for his blog ''La Pura Vida.'' He founded and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen McLaren
Stephen McLaren is a Scottish photographer, writer, and curator, based in Los Angeles. He has edited various photography books published by Thames & Hudson—including ''Street Photography Now'' (2010)—and produced his own, ''The Crash'' (2018). He is a co-founder member of Document Scotland. McLaren's work has been shown at FACT in Liverpool as part of the Look – Liverpool International Photography Festival and in Document Scotland group exhibitions at Impressions Gallery, Bradford and at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. His work is held in the collection of the University of St Andrews. Career McLaren made television documentaries in Scotland and then in London, before moving to the USA and working as a photographer. In 2013 he was living in San Francisco and is now based in Los Angeles. Matt McCann wrote in ''The New York Times'' that McLaren's street photography "feels like a field guide to how normal things can be really odd, contradictory — and visua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson (sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books in all visually creative categories: art, architecture, design, photography, fashion, film, and the performing arts. It also publishes books on archaeology, history, and popular culture. Headquartered in London, it has a sister company in New York City, and subsidiaries in Melbourne, Singapore, and Hong Kong. In Paris it has a sister company, Éditions Thames & Hudson, and a subsidiary called Interart which distributes English-language books. The Thames & Hudson group currently employs approximately 150 staff in London and approximately 65 more around the world. The publishing company was founded in 1949 by Walter and Eva Neurath, who aimed to make the world of art and the research of top scholars available to a wider public. The company's name reflects its international presence, particularly in London and New York. It remains an independent, family-owned company, and is one of the largest publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Russell (photographer)
Paul Russell (born 1966) is a British Street photography, street photographer, based in Weymouth, Dorset. He was a member of the In-Public international street photography collective. Russell's work has been published in his own publications, the book ''Eastleigh By-election 2013'' and the zines ''On Weymouth Beach'' and ''Country Show'', and in a few survey publications on street photography. His work is held in the collection of the Museum of London and he has had solo exhibitions in venues around the UK, and in group exhibitions in various locations worldwide. Life and work Russell was born in London in 1966. He is based in Weymouth, Dorset. He became a member of the In-Public international street photography collective in 2010. Phil Coomes, writing for BBC News in 2011, described him as "street photographer Paul Russell whose eye for a humorous moment is as keen as any you will find." Publications Publications by Russell *''Eastleigh By-election 2013: My Week in Politics''. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Solomons (photographer)
David Solomons (born 31 December 1965) is a British street photographer. He is known for his photographs in London, where he has made a trilogy of self-published books: ''Underground'' (2009), ''Up West'' (2015) and ''Kippers and Curtains'' (2018). He was a member of the In-Public street photography collective. ''Up West'' was shown in a solo exhibition at Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, in 2010 and his work is held in the collection of the Museum of London. Life and work Solomons studied documentary photography at the University of South Wales in Newport between 1993 and 1996. During this period he changed from primarily photographing in black and white to the colour work he is mostly known for. His first major piece of work, ''Underground'', depicting people using the London Underground, was completed during his studies in Newport but not published for fifteen years. He was a member of the In-Public street photography collective, having joined in 2008. Books Books and zines by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake Andrews
Blake Andrews (29 December 1968) is an American street photographer and blogger based in Eugene, Oregon. Andrews was a member of the In-Public street photography collective. Life and work Andrews was born in Berkeley and grew up in Briceland, California. He began photography in 1993, a year after moving to Portland. In 2004, he joined the Portland Grid Project, in which a number of photographers have continued to photograph Portland, square mile by square mile. After moving from Portland to Eugene in 2006, he worked in the similar Eugene Grid Project. Andrews became a member of the In-Public street photography collective in 2006, and is also a member of Portland-based collective Light Leak. Andrews mostly works in black and white. His "finely tuned black-and-white photographs" are "so subtle that you need to double-check that you haven't missed something. This is a rare quality. They are a quiet homage to the weird, and often feature children. . . . His style is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Marlow
Jesse Marlow (1978) is an Australian street photographer, editorial and commercial photographer who lives and works in Melbourne. Marlow's personal work has been published in three books of his own, and in various books with others; it has been exhibited in a number of solo exhibitions in Australia, and group exhibitions internationally; and is held in the public collections of the City of Melbourne, and the State Library of Victoria, both in Melbourne, Australia. He won first prize in the 2011 London Street Photography Festival's International Street Photography Award, and in the 2012 Bowness Photography Prize. He was a member of the Australian documentary photography collective Oculi, from 2003 to 2012, and was a member of the In-Public street photography collective from 2001. Life and work Marlow was born in 1978 in Melbourne, Australia. Marlow says he was first inspired to make street photography at age eight by the book '' Subway Art'' (1984), which documents the early hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narelle Autio
Narelle Autio (born 1969) is an Australian photographer. She is a member of the In-Public street photography collective and is a founding member of the Oculi photographic agency. She is married to the photographer Trent Parke, with whom she often collaborates. She has won two Walkley Awards for photojournalism, two first prize World Press Photo awards, and the Oskar Barnack Award. Early life and education Narelle Autio was born in 1969 in the Adelaide suburb of Henley Beach. She completed a visual arts degree at the University of South Australia in 1990. Career Autio began her career as a photojournalist at the Adelaide ''Advertiser'' in 1991, before leaving Adelaide in 1994. She travelled extensively in the UK and USA, and working for several major UK newspapers as well as being a photographer at News Limited's London bureau. In 1998 she returned to Australia, residing in Sydney this time. She was a senior staff photographer at ''Sydney Morning Herald'' until 2003, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trent Parke
Trent Parke is an Australian photographer. He is the husband of Narelle Autio, with whom he often collaborates. He has created a number of photography books; won numerous national and international awards including four World Press Photo awards; and his photographs are held in numerous public and private collections. He is a member of Magnum Photos. Early life Parke was born and brought up in Newcastle, New South Wales. He started photography when he was twelve. At age 13 he watched his mother die from an asthma attack. Career Parke has worked as a photojournalist for ''The Australian'' newspaper. In 2003 he and his wife, the photographer Narelle Autio, made a 90,000 km trip around Australia, resulting in Parke's books ''Minutes to Midnight'' and ''The Black Rose.'' Parke became a member of the In-Public street photography collective in 2001. He became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2002 and a member in 2007; the first Australian invited to join.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
