Bill Cunningham (American photographer).

Bill Cunningham (American photographer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William J. "Bill" Cunningham Jr. (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) was an American fashion photographer for The New York Times, known for his candid and street photography.
In 1983 the Council of Fashion Designers of America named Cunningham the outstanding photographer of the year.
In 2008 he was awarded the Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
As he accepted the award at a Paris ceremony, he photographed the audience and then told them: "It's as true today as it ever was: he who seeks beauty will find it."
In 2009, he was named a "living landmark" by the New York Landmarks Conservancy.
In 2012 he received the Carnegie Hall Medal of Excellence.

In 2010, filmmaker Richard Press and writer Philip Gefter of The Times produced Bill Cunningham New York, a documentary about Cunningham.
The film was released on March 16, 2011. It shows Cunningham traveling through Manhattan by bicycle and living in a tiny apartment in the Carnegie Hall building.
The apartment has no closet, kitchen, or private bathroom, and is filled with filing cabinets and boxes of his photographs.
The documentary also details his philosophy on fashion, art and photography, as well as observes his interactions with his subjects while taking photos.

Cunningham was featured on BBC Two's The Culture Show in March 2012.

Cunningham died age 87 in New York City on June 25, 2016, after being hospitalized for a stroke.

Legendary dancer Retna, Cartier-Bresson.

Legendary dancer Retna, Cartier-Bresson's Indonesian influence | The Jakarta Post:

Ratna "Elie" Mohini (1904 Batavia – 1988 Paris) was a Javanese dancer who was the wife of the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson from 1937 to 1967.
She was born in Batavia under the name Carolina Jeanne de Souza-Ijke. Ratna was known as "Elie" to her friends.
Cartier-Bresson and Mohini divorced in 1967, after 30 years of marriage, and Cartier-Bresson then married the photographer Martine Franck in 1970.

Love Through a Lens.

Henri Cartier-Bresson and Martine Franck: Love Through a Lens | TIME:
In a 2010 interview with Charlie Rose, photographer Martine Franck gave an insight into how she first got together with her husband, renowned Magnum founder Henri Cartier-Bresson: “Martine,” Bresson had apparently said to Franck, by way of showing his romantic interest, “I want to come and see your contact sheets.”

The feeling was obviously mutual. The two married in 1970, with Franck becoming his second wife. And while the Frenchman was 30 years her senior, they stayed together right up until his death in 2004. Franck died in 2012.

Theirs was a marriage of hearts and minds: Both were talented photographers and keen observers of the world. If Cartier-Bresson’s work was the result of what often seems like total immersion in a moment, Franck’s emerged from a quieter — some might argue a more detached — approach. He loved the streets, the vibrancy of the everyday; she liked working on the fringe — photographing communities on isolated Irish islands, for example — but also made portraits of creative giants like Marc Chagall and Seamus Heaney.

But it is through their elegant, often intimate, portraits of each other that we gain insight into a significant part of their relationship. And though Franck once told The Daily Telegraph that the two rarely discussed photography, the joy they must have felt at turning their lenses towards each other is readily evident in these portraits.

We see a poised shot of Franck in Venice as if waiting for a train, a smartly-dressed Cartier-Bresson sitting on a railing in Switzerland. Likewise, we catch a glimpse of Bresson after he has seemingly finished a self-portrait in Paris, and of Franck as she holds a cup to her mouth while reclining on a couch.

These beautiful images remind us that while, separately, the two were extraordinarily talented, understood together they were truly exceptional.
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Rich Docherty. NYC Snapped.

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Глаза огромные, как блюдца.

Глаза огромные, как блюдца | Nordic Design:
Eyes as Big as Plates («Глаза огромные, как блюдца») — это совместный проект двух фотографов — финки Риитты Иконен (Riitta Ikonen) и норвежки Каролин Йорт (Karoline Hjorth). Иконен и Йорт познакомились  в мае 2011 года во время норвежской программы для художников в Саннес (коммуна в губернии Ругаланн в Норвегии).

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Sebastiao-salgado

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