Noteblog • United States

Eve Arnold, OBE, Hon. FRPS (née Cohen) was an American photojournalist. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951, and became a full member in 1957.

With the minimal and conceptual movement, the art of this period is defined and reconstructed with elements external to the work: proofs, certificates, complementary information … In response to this tendency, Mac Adams introduces the notion of fiction into his photographs. Mac Adams fits into the conceptual current but responds differently: in the narration, everything is…

Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was a landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating “pure” photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.

Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision…