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Manuel
Alvarez Bravo, Mexico, 1902-2002
Paisaje Chamula [Chamula Landscape], ca. 1979
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| Alvarez
Bravo’s grandfather, Manuel Alvarez Rivas, was a painter
and photographer; his father, Manuel Alvarez Garcia, was a writer
and painter. Alvarez Bravo studied painting and music in school,
and began photographing one year after meeting the German photographer
Hugo Brehme in 1923. For many years Alvarez Bravo was director
and chief photographer of the Fondo Editorial de la Plasticas
Mexicana. |
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Sandra
Louise Skoglund, United States, b. 1946
Fox Games, 1989
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| Educated
at Smith College and the University of Iowa, where she earned
an MFA, Sandy Skoglund's work combines the creation of large-scale
environments with large-format photography. The art historian,
Betsy Rosasco, a classmate of Skoglund's at Smith, writes that
the artist's considerable popular appeal lies in part on her
ability to infuse the ordinary with sly humor, mystery, and
the surreal. Thus, we see in her work a "conventional situation,
that we all immediately recognize, and then there is that oddity..."
consisting, in this case, of a flurry of red foxes. |
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Stéphane
Couturier, France, b. 1957
Rue de Chateaudun - Rue de la Victoire - Paris from Urban
Archaeology Series, 1997
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| Stéphane
Couturier has been photographing European cities for more than
twenty years. His ongoing project photographing construction
sites, Urban Archaeology, explores cities in the midst of change
and builds upon photography’s historical fascination with
urban architecture. |
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Andres
Serrano, United States, b. 1953
Piss Discus from The Fluids Series, 1988
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| Born
in New York City and educated at the Brooklyn Museum Art School,
Serrano had his first one-person exhibition at the Leonard Perison
Gallery in New York in 1985. His image from this series, Piss
Christ, caused a furor when it was included in an exhibition
at the Cincinnati Museum of Art in 1990, which was partially
funded by the National Endowment for the Arts . Since then the
conceptual artist and photographer has continued to exhibit
widely. |
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