Sune Jonsson (20 December 1930 – 30 January 2009) was a Swedish documentary photographer and writer. Jonsson was born in Nyåker outside Nordmaling in the province of Västerbotten, Sweden. After studying folklore and literature in Stockholm and Uppsala, Jonsson returned in the early 1960s to northern Sweden. His debut book…
David Martin “Dave” Heath (27 June 1931 – 27 June 2016) was an American documentary and humanist photographer, whose most famous work was candid street photography. He was a mostly self-taught photographer. He was born in Philadelphia and was inspired by Life magazine, most notably an article Bad Boy’s Story…
Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger (December 27, 1906 – February 18, 1999) was an American photographer and a writer on photographic technique. He was noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan and for studies of the structures of natural objects. Feininger wrote comprehensive manuals about photography, of which the best…
Vladimir Lagrange was a Russian photographer born in 1939 in Moscow. In 1959-1963 he was working in “Photokhronika TASS”. Since 1963-1989 – special photo correspondent of “Soviet Union” Magazine, in 1989-1991 – in “Native Land” Magazine, in 1991-1995 – in Moscow representative of French Agency “Sipa – Press”. © Vladimir…
Meet, Masha Ivashintsova (1942−2000), a woman who was hiding about 30,000 photos she took in the USSR. Recently, her daughter Asya Ivashintsova-Melkumyan was going through her stuff and found a stunning collection of more than 30,000 images. After deciding to develop these photos, Asya was shocked to discover how well…
Zofia Rydet (1911–1997) was a Polish photographer, best known for her project “Sociological Record”, which aimed to document every household in Poland. She began working on “Sociological Record” in 1978 at the age of 67, and took nearly 20,000 pictures until her death in 1997. Many of the pictures remain…
Francesc Català-Roca (1922 – 1998) was a Spanish photographer born in Barcelona. His father Pere Català Pic is a Spanish photographer and writer. He worked as a photo reporter in magazines such as Destino and La Vanguardia. His first individual photography exhibition happened in 1953. Francesc, also interested in cinema,…
Check these haunting photographs of Jacqueline Roberts from Spain, which she captured the technique called Wet plate photography. This technique invented in 1851 by Frederick Scott Archer and Gustave Le Gray. Although the process required a portable darkroom, it combined desirable qualities of the calotype process (enabling an unlimited number…