Biographies

  • William HELBURN, a Visionary in Fashion Photography William HELBURN, a renowned photographer, has left an indelible mark on the world of fashion and advertising photography throughout his career spanning several decades. Born on February 19, 1924, in New York, and passing away on November 3, 2020, HELBURN developed a ...
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  • Guillaume CANNAT is a French photographer. Born in 1962, fascinated by astronomy from a young age, Guillaume Cannat made his passion his profession. He is not an astrophysicist, as he likes to remember. Guillaume Cannat is a true lover of space, of the planets. For forty years he has observed, and made people observe,...
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  • Paul Nicklen is a Canadian photographer and marine biologist specializing in the polar regions and their wildlife. It has documented the beauty and fate of our planet for over twenty years. As an expedition photographer for National Geographic magazine, Paul Nicklen captures the imagination of a global audience. He sta...
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  • Jean-Daniel Lorieux is one of the most famous French fashion photographers of the 20th century. He was born in 1937 in Paris into a family of industrialists. Fleeing from the rigors of Jesuit education, he took refuge in the theater and attended René Simon’s drama lessons. However, his dreams of cinema were thwarte...
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  • Cássio VASCONCELLOS (1965-) is a Brazilian photographer, born in São Paulo. He studied photography at the Imagem-Ação school of São Paulo before starting a career in photojournalism. In between photo stories and advertising work, he shoots for his own photographic collection. Active since 1981, VASCONCELLOS has...
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  • How to best characterize the photographic work of Vincent FOURNIER? First, by knowing its triple interest in science, the human being and its potential, whether in the realm of utopia or the nearest future. "Observe the stars, travel in space and time, create and program the living, see in the invisible, invent the f...
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  • George TICE is a renowned photographer, who has been focusing his work on the American rural and urban environment. He is particulary attracted to remnant of American culture on the edge of extinction - from the small provincial communities to urban neighborhoods. George TICE, a 10th generation New Jerseyan, was bor...
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  • Born in 1974 in Riccione, Alessandro PIREDDA lives and works in Misano Adriatico. He developes a passion for the history of architecture during his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Rimini. Surrounded since childhood by the emblematic monuments of classical Italian architecture, he absorbs eagerly all the informat...
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  • Romain VEILLON is a self-taught artist passionate about photography and travelling. He began to photograph at the age of 15 to engrave in memory his discoveries. Gradually he concentrates more on the artistic approach to the photography, choosing as his favorite subject the aesthetics of abandoned places. Fascinated by...
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  • Manolo CHRETIEN was born in 1966 on the Orange airbase (France). His father was a French pilot and international astronaut (first European to go into space), he spent his young years between sheds and airplanes. Manolo CHRETIEN developed quickly a high interest about this metallic world, which combines technology, spee...
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  • Douglas KIRKLAND was born in 1934 in Toronto. Child, he has been amazed by Photography and his kith and kin became his very first models. Douglas KIRKLAND still does not know that during the next years, the most prominent Hollywood celebrities will pose in front of his camera. In the early stages of his career Douglas...
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  • USA and URSS were opposed in a fierce competition: The Space Race. The Space Race was the odyssey of the 20th century. It started on 4 October 1957 with Sputnik 1, first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union. The next month, it was followed by the first animal to orbit the Earth, still by URSS. The m...
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  • Stephen WILKES was born in 1957. He began to photograph from his 12 years old, a passion which will not leave him. Stephen WILKES studied at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, he graduated with a bachelor of science in photography. Specialized in communication, the school allowed ...
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  • Jean-Claude GAUTRAND is a French photographer and historian of photography. He was born in 1932, in Sains-en-Gohelle (France, Pas-de-Calais). During his teenage years, he learnt photography. Later, in his 24, he discovered Otto STEINERT’s work that left him a dramatic impression. Jean-Claude GAUTRAND drawn inspiratio...
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  • Peter HUTCHINSON is an artist and photographer born in 1930. He went to USA and studied Arts in Illinois University between 1953 and 1960. Peter HUTCHINSON started his artistic career during the sixties as a minimalist painter. Afterwards, he took some distances with minimalism and he is, at this moment, perceived as ...
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  • Matthias OLMETA was born in Marseille (France) in 1968. At the age of 16, he has been fond of photography, the next year he decided to study it. In order to do so, Matthias OLMETA went to Los Angeles and studied visual arts at Santa Monica City College, from which he graduated in 1991. During his American stay of seve...
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  • The photographer Kyriakos KAZIRAS was born in Athens in 1966. He encountered photography at the early age of seven, when he received his first camera. His paternal grandfather was a painter and his maternal grandfather photographer, actually, it gave him the opportunity during his younger years, to develop a strong ...
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  • Rachel LEVY was born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1955. She went to the USA to study at the San Francisco Art Institute from which she graduated. After an American stay of 10 years, Rachel LEVY headed back to France in 1984. She has photographed as a free-lance for many magazines while pursuing her own research, mainl...
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  • Ormond GIGLI was born in New York City in 1925 within a modest family. The photographic journey started when, still a teenager, his father offered him his first camera. Ormond GIGLI is fond of photography. After the class, he worked as an assistant for several photographers. Thanks to that he met the fashion world thro...
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  • Mitch DOBROWNER (1956-) grew up on Long Island (Bethpage), NY – He felt lost in his late teens. Worried about his future direction in life, his father gave him an old Argus rangefinder to fool around with. Little did he realize what an important gesture that would turn out to be for him. After doing some research an...
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  • David RUBINGER (1924-2017) was born in Vienna in 1924, David RUBINGER emigrated to Israel, then Palestine, in 1939. A chance encounter in Paris left him with the gift of a small 35mm camera, resulting in his decision to try to make a living from photography. After the end of Israel’s War of Independence in 1948, he ...
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  • Born in 1950, Alice ATTIE devoted herself to French Literature which she graduated from Barnard College in New York City. Then, she studied poetry under June JORDAN. Alice Attie’s doctoral dissertation focused on the meeting between language and the unspeakable.  From then on, her interest for visual arts takes all ...
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  • Italian photographer Stefano CERIO (1962-) lives and works between Rome and Paris. At 18 years old he started photographing for the Italian weekly L’Espresso. During this first part of his career Stefano CERIO made portraits for both fashion magazines and newspapers. The year 2001 is a turning point, in this new m...
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  • Stéphane AISENBERG (1968-) is a French photographer specialized in wildlife photography. His black and white photos can be compared to portraits. It is by getting as closely as possible to the animal, that Stéphane AISENBERG achieve to convey the dignity and the strength emanating from wild beasts. Thanks to this pro...
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  • Jerry UELSMANN is an American photographer born in Detroit in 1934. He studied at the Fine Art Rochester Institute of Technology of which he graduated in 1957, then at the Indiana University until 1960. Later, he taught photography at University in the state of Florida, where he still lives. The solo show in 1967 at...
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