21-seconds

[21-seconds]

David Yarrow

(born 8 February 1966)

is a British fine-art photographer, conservationist and author. He has travelled to isolated locations to capture images of wildlife, indigenous communities and landscapes.

He currently lives in London.

#david yarrow #photography #beautiful photos #21 secondi #21 seconds #black and white photography #b&w photography #street photography #bw #streetphoto greatshots #art #streetphoto bw

[21-seconds]

Marc Lagrange

(1957-2015)

was born in Kinshasa, Congo. His career path led him from engineering to photography, and his creativity from fashion to art. Privileging analog over digital, the Antwerp-based Belgian artist searched for intimacy and emotion as opposed to artificial effects. His giant Polaroids, which have been exhibited worldwide, are a powerful example of his craft as well as his attention to detail: he displayed the texture of skin, highlight natural curves and make his models stand out. Lagrange elaborated entire sets until he found the exact mood he wished to convey, with the end goal being to create the images he wanted. From the color of the walls to the shape of a chair, every single detail counted, underlining Lagrange’s perfectionist streak and his willingness to unfold narratives.

#marc lagrange #fotografia #photography #beautiful photos #black and white photography #21 seconds #21 secondi

[21-seconds]

Ed Freeman

His early career was in the music industry; he performed as a folk guitarist and classical lutenist, worked as a road manager on the last Beatles’ tour, played guitar on dozens of pop recordings, wrote orchestral arrangements for artists including Carly Simon and Cher, produced and arranged over two dozen albums, including Don McLean’s American Pie. After a mid-life career change, he now createscommercial and fine art photographs that have been featured in hundreds of publications. Two books of his computer-enhanced images have been published. His architectural series - Desert Realty and Urban Realty - have been the subject of touring museums shows. Prints of his fine art images are in the permanent collections of several American museums and private collections world-wide. These days Freeman travels the world taking pictures, teaches Photoshop, still plays piano, is fighting a losing battle to learn Mandarin Chinese and swears mightily that he will write the Great American Symphony one day -whenever he gets some spare time. Don’t hold your breath. 

#ed freeman #beautiful photos #photography #fotografia #art #streetphoto greatshots #americanphotographer #21 secondi #21 second #Instagram

[21-seconds]

Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell

3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011

was a British film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. His films in the main were liberal adaptations of existing texts, or biographies, notably of composers of the Romantic era. Russell began directing for the BBC, where he made creative adaptations of composers' lives which were unusual for the time. He also directed many feature films independently and for studios. Before his uproarious film career, Ken Russell started out with a Rolleicord camera, documenting teddy girls and bomb-scarred streets.

#ken russell #beautiful photos #fotografia #photography #black and white photography #art #streetphoto greatshots #streetphoto bw #21 secondi #21seconds #Instagram

[21-seconds]

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon

(6 April 1820 – 20 March 1910)

known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858 he became the first person to take aerial photographs.

#félix nadar #nadar #fotografia #photography #beautiful photos #black and white photography #b&w photography #portraits #master of portraits #21 seconds #21 secondi #Instagram

[21-seconds]

Kai Ziehl

Kai Ziehl

is a German photographer based in Hamburg, specializing in capturing the beauty of architecture in urban landscapes, his work shows how coldness can become meaningful and expressive. These black and white shots capture the true dimension of cities and their buildings. His shots share a beautiful stillness that makes them attractive to audiences.

#Kai Ziehl #photography #beautiful photos #21 seconds #black and white photography #b&w photography #street photography #bw #fotografia #photografy #21 secondi #streetphoto art #streets storytelling #architecture #Instagram

[21-seconds]

Jean Paul Bourdier

is a photographer and Professor of Architecture, Photography and Visual Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

His photography often focuses on body art and the intersections of natural environments and human bodies. A frequent collaborator with filmmaker, feminist and postcolonial scholar, and artist Trinh T. Minh-ha, he has co-authored, co-directed and co-produced books, films, and performances. These collaborations have explored traditional West African dwellings and architecture, transnational and postcolonial experience and imagination. Originally from France, Bourdier taught in Italy and Senegal before moving permanently to California.

His most recent book, Body Unbound (2017), includes verse and architectural sketches in combination with his photographs, providing a window into Bourdier's photographic practice.

Preferring to work with analog photography, Bourdier's photographs rely on body paint and the staging of his models to blend body and environment rather than digital editing or collage. He has said that he prefers analog photography due to the materiality, mystery, and intimacy of the medium.

Bourdier has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including Guggenheim, UC President's Humanities, and Getty awards.

#Jean Paul Bourdier #bourdier #photography #beautiful photos #21 seconds #body landscape #landscape #fotografia #great photo #body painting #Instagram

[21-seconds]

Monica Denevan

is a fine-art photographer based in her native home of San Francisco, California. Early on in her college career, while helping a friend with a photography class assignment, she discovered a fascination for portraiture and the creative intimacy that develops between the artist and the sitter. She began to study photography, with a particular emphasis on portraiture, and the course of her creative life was set. After earning her degree in photography from San Francisco State in 1987 she began to travel, and it was through travel, and experiencing life far from her hometown, that she began to develop her photographic voice.

#beautiful photos #fotografia #photography #black and white photography #art #reportage #artreportage #Monica Denevan #21 second #Instagram

[21-seconds]

Leonid Lazarev

was born in Moscow in 1937. After winning the second prize in the international competition for young people and students in 1957, he decided to dedicate his life to photography. In 1962, he was considered one of the best photographers in the world in the Photography Year Book, by the international press. Over the years, he worked with leading magazines and newspapers in the former Soviet Union. Today, Leonid Lazarev is still active, preparing the book “Moscow of a Thousand Nationalities”.

#Leonid Lazarev #beautiful photos #fotografia #photography #black and white photography #streetphoto greatshots #art #streetphoto bw #streetphoto portrait #street photografie #21 secondi #21 second #Instagram

[21-seconds]

Berenice Abbott

(July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991)

Bernice Alice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th century cultural figures, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation in the 1940s to 1960s.

#berenice abbott #fotografia #beautiful photos #photography #black and white photography #streetphoto greatshots #art #streetphoto bw #great photo #new york #21 secondi #21 second #Instagram

[21-seconds]

Gianmarco Morandini

1954 - 2020

Since he was a child he was fond of cameras and photography.

Since 2000 he has specialized in the world of entertainment and models, making books and becoming the official photographer on the fashion catwalks.

He was a collector of vintage cameras.

#fotografia #beautiful photos #photography #fashion photoshoot #fashionshoot #portraits #Gianmarco Morandini #21 secondi #21 seconds #Instagram

[21-seconds]

Renato D'Agostin

born in 1983

s an Italian photographer, best known for his black and white silver gelatin prints and his books.

D'Agostin used to live and work in New York City and is now based near Venice, Italy.

#Renato D'Agostin #fotografia #beautiful photos #photography #black and white photography #art #streetphoto greatshots #streetphoto bw #21 secondi #21Seconds #Instagram

[21-seconds]

Harry Callahan

(October 22, 1912 – March 15, 1999)

was an American photographer and educator. He taught at both the Institute of Design in Chicago and the Rhode Island School of Design.Callahan's first solo exhibition was at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1951. He had a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1976/1977. Callahan was a recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal and the National Medal of Arts. He represented the United States in the Venice Biennale in 1978.

#harry callahan #callahan #beautiful photos #photography #black and white photography #streetphoto greatshots #fotografia #art #streetphoto bw #21 secondi #21Secods #Instagram

[21-seconds]

Yale Joel

Born in the Bronx borough of New York, Joel began his photography career at 19. After serving as a combat photographer in the U.S. Army Pictorial Service from 1942 to 1946, he joined the staff of Life. He remained there until 1972, when he went into advertising and industrial photography. He also taught workshops.

#yale joel #beautiful photos #fotografia #black and white photography #photography #streetphoto greatshots #art #streetphoto bw #21 secondi #Instagram

[21-seconds]

Erwin Blumenfeld

(26 January 1897 – 4 July 1969)

was an American photographer of German origin. He was born in Berlin, and in 1941 emigrated to the United States, where he soon became a successful and well-paid fashion photographer, working as a free-lancer for Harper's Bazaar, Life and American Vogue. His personal photographic work showed the influence of Dadaism and Surrealism; his two main areas of interest were death and women. He was expert in laboratory work, and experimented with photographic techniques such as distortion, multiple exposure, photo-montage and solarisation.

#erwin blumenfeld #fotografia #beautiful photos #photography #fashionshoot #fashion #fashion photoshoot #21 seconds #21 secondi #Instagram

[21-seconds]

Lewonor Benito de La Lastra

1962 Barcelona, ​​Spain

The artist has a degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Salamanca, specializing in audiovisual and video design, was awarded by the Junta de Castilla y León in the regional Young Photographers competition and was selected to represent the Junta in the national competition. and at the Arco fair in Madrid.

The work of this artist places, as a whole, a poetic exchange with her closest environment and, for this reason, she has maintained the use of the traditional methods of development and expansion of analogue photography.

#photography #fotografia #beautiful photos #black and white photography #b&w photography #photografy #portraits #21 secondi #21 seconds #Instagram

[21-seconds]

Ralph Gibson

(born January 16, 1939)

is an American art photographer best known for his photographic books. His images often incorporate fragments with erotic and mysterious undertones, building narrative meaning through contextualization and surreal juxtaposition. Ralph Gibson studied photography while in the US Navy and then at the San Francisco Art Institute. He began his professional career as an assistant to Dorothea Lange and went on to work with Robert Frank on two films. Gibson has maintained a lifelong fascination with books and book-making.

#ralph gibson #beautiful photos #photography #black and white photography #art #streetphoto greatshots #fotografia #21 second #21 secondi #Instagram