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Lee Miller

Gallery BIoGRAPHY Lee Miller was born in 1907 in Poughkeepsie, New York and first entered the world of photography in New York as a model to the great photographers of the day such as Edward Steichen, Hoyningen-Huene and Arnold Genthe. In 1929 she went to Paris and worked with the well known Surrealist artist and...

Vera Mercer

Gallery autobiography I was born in Berlin in November 1936. My father, Franz Mertz, was a well-known
 theater set designer and was probably my most important influence. I earned my dance and gymnastic diploma and married the assistant of the theater director, a young Romanian Swiss artist named Daniel Spoerri. 
He and his friend Emmet...

Oliver Mark

Gallery BIoGRAPHY Born 1963, lives and works in Berlin. Exhibitions, publications and projects in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Russia, Romania, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Bulgaria and China 1986 -1988 Education in photography 1989-1991 Assistance at Burda Studios Offenburg 2003-2004 Observer at University of the Arts Berlin with Prof. Katharina Sieverding (Visual Culture) SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2021  Museo,...

Petr Lovigin

Gallery BIoGRAPHY Petr Lovigin was born in 1981 and studied architecture in his hometown of Yaroslavl on the Volga River in Russia. He later became fascinated by photography and displayed a ironic eye as he began to travel the world to capture images. He photographed India, Jamaica, Africa, and, of course, his Russian homeland. His...

Tomasz Lazar

Gallery BIoGRAPHY Born 1985 in Szczecin, Poland. An independent photographer, a graduate of the West Pomeranian University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology.  Winner of photography contests in Poland and abroad (e.g. World Press Photo, POY, CHIPP, Sony World Photography Award, the International Photography Award, BZWBK Press Photo, Grand Press Photo, Lumix...

Jacques Henri Lartigue

Gallery BIoGRAPHY Jacques Henri Lartigue was 69 years old in 1963 when he first presented a selection of his many photographs taken throughout his life at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. That same year, there was a photo spread of his work in the famous Life Magazine issue commemorating the death of John Fitzgerald...

Eikoh Hosoe

Gallery BIoGRAPHY For over fifty years, internationally-acclaimed photographer Eikoh Hosoe has been producing cutting-edge works demonstrating a unique mastery of the photographic medium. Early on in his career, he abandoned the documentary style prevalent in the post-war years and produced work that breathed a sense of experimentation and freedom into photography. By calling on mythology,...

Erich Hartmann

Gallery BIoGRAPHY Born 1922 in Munich, Germany, Erich Hartmann was sixteen when he came with his family in 1938 to Albany, New York, refugees from Nazi Germany. The only English speaker in the family, he worked in a textile mill, attending evening high school and later taking night courses at Siena College. When the U....

Philippe Halsman

Gallery     AUTObiography My father was a dentist, and my mother gave up her profession as a teacher when I was born. This event, so important for me, happened on May 2, 1906, in Riga, Latvia. Riga was a highly civilized old city of 300,000 inhabitants. It had museums, an opera, three repertory theaters,...

Gundula Friese

Gallery BIoGRAPHY Born in 1959 in Magdeburg, currently living in Berlin. Gundula Friese studied photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig as well as sound and video design at the Berlin Academy of Digital Media. Her work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions. Gundula Friese was drawn to photography early in life....