Tag Archives: Photographer
Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/27~
What 19th century German-born American artist, still famous today as a caricaturist and editorial cartoonist, also illustrated more than 110 books over the course of his career?
What photographer, known for his depictions of the countryside and rural life, was a founding fellow of the Photo-Secession group who promoted photography as a fine art?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/26~
To achieve accuracy in his enormous Raft of the Medusa, for which Eugène Delacroix posed as one of the figures, this painter used a model of the raft and carefully studied real cadavers.
This photographer was educated as a sociologist and was past thirty when he seriously took up photography; he saw the medium as a means of studying and describing the social conditions around him.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/20~
What painter, who studied under Ingres but was later influenced by Ingres’s rival Delacroix, attempted to combine the classicism of the former with the romanticism of the latter?
What photographer, two years before the Battle of Little Bighorn, captured roughly 6 dozen images of George Armstrong Custer’s 1874 military expedition into the Black Hills?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/19~
Which American-born photographer, a founding member of the Photo-Secession movement, had two entire issues of Alfred Stieglitz’s Camera Work devoted to his photogravures in 1910?
Which photojournalist captured and preserved images of feminist activism and other social causes for more than 30 years, even if she was not assigned to cover an event?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/18~
What photographer helped establish the 19th century’s largest manufacturer and distributor of photographic supplies in the U.S. when he joined his brother’s business in 1852?
What contemporary painter’s meticulously observed oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings are dominated by two subjects: the floors of interior spaces and the trees on her property?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/12~
Which American painter and graphic artist gained fame in the early thirties for a series of paintings on the trial of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, beginning a career which constantly addressed various social and political causes?
Which New Deal arts program muralist intentionally manipulated the topography in his 1937 Pittsburgh Panorama for that city’s Federal Courthouse and Post Office so that the finished image would resemble a hammer and sickle?
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“Capturing a City’s Emotion in the Days After 9/11”
By James Estrin Sep. 7, 2016
Nina Berman photographed the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Later she put some of those images together in diptychs and triptychs.
Ms. Berman lives in New York and is a member of the photographer-owned photo agency Noor. She spoke with James Estrin about her post-Sept. 11 work as well as her projects “Purple Hearts — Back From Iraq” (Trolley, 2004) and “Homeland” (Trolley, 2008). Their conversation has been edited for brevity and clarity.
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